Mathew - that's an interesting idea I had not considered. It makes sense if we are skipping versions for stable releases to also skip versions for development releases. Having said that though, the code in update- manager parses the meta-release files to determine which release to upgrade. As an example here is the meta-release-development entry for utopic.
Dist: utopic Name: Utopic Unicorn Version: 14.10 Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:10:00 UTC Supported: 0 Description: This is the 14.10 release Release-File: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/Release ReleaseNotes: http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement UpgradeTool: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/utopic.tar.gz UpgradeToolSignature: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/utopic/main/dist-upgrader-all/current/utopic.tar.gz.gpg We currently just check the date and supported status to determine to which release to upgrade, as the meta release files don't really contain information about whether or not a release is obsolete. Thinking about it more though, if we are running with the -d switch we could check to see if the release date is greater than today. There should probably be a fudge factor of a day though as otherwise people may not be able to upgrade on release day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1497024 Title: release upgrades should jump over unsupported releases To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1497024/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
