"No Release file" from do-release-upgrade with an aptly repo

[Sam Varshavchik]

Liam Proven writes:

> > That's what
> > free software is all about, after all.
>
> I would have to say that's a stretch, TBH. All I am saying, and I
> really don't get why you seem to be so resistant to it, is that there
> are other distros which will probably make this easier for you, and if
> this is your goal, maybe this isn't the distro for you.

Perhaps I have other reasons for investing some time with Ubuntu.

But none of this philosophical discussions about what Ubuntu is or is not,  
is something that interests me. Neither is the lengthy dissertation about  
long term future prospects of package-based versus container-based  
distributions. I have my own opinions on that, of course, but I fail to see  
why I need to convince other about the accuracy of my predictions.

If I have any other technical questions, I'll ask them here. If someone  
might know the answer and would like to share it, I'll appreciate it. If  
not, then that's that.

> I don't understand. Why choose a tool which actively fights against
> what you want to do?

Because it's there.

> Wouldn't it be better to choose tools that help you, that work the way
> you want to work?

Actually, this helped me a lot, in gaining knowledge and understanding of  
something that I did not know before.

> When you hit a problem, why do you choose to argue about definitions
> rather than look for the causes of the problem?

Arguing? Who's arguing? I made a statement of fact in the first message I  
wrote in this thread:

# I use aptly to maintain a local repository that distributes those dbs. My
# /etc/apt/sources.list has an extra entry, at the beginning, pointing to the
# aptly-maintained repository where the private deb packages come from,  

Clear as day. Somehow, you became convinced that this wasn't really a  
repository, and started an argument about what makes a repo, a repo. I don't  
know why, but I don't care.

> > The well-publicized Firefox issue in 22 highlights, quite effectively, the
> > technical disadvantages of going in that direction.
>
> Which issue do you mean?

The one that doubled the Firefox startup time. The one that spawned a  
multitude of blog posts with arcane and convoluted instructions about  
uninstalling the Firefox snap and replacing it with a PPA.

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