It seems to be a very simple issue. do upgrade already tells you what
version you have and if there is an upgrade path on new releases. Why
can't it do that for every release going back into antiquity. There are
probably only 40ish official releases that would need to be covered.
When a release is archived you only need to update the sources for that
release to point the updater to the archives as opposed to the latest
supported releases. I'm a advanced user not a programmer but if I can
address it on the command line with this line of code to make it work on
a case by case basis
sudo sed -i -re
's/([a-z]{2}\.)?archive.ubuntu.com|security.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g'
/etc/apt/sources.list
and then
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
how hard would it be to create this in the normal upgrade process for
each of the old releases.
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upgrading from an End of Life release is not easy peasy
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