This was discussed in #ubuntu-meeting on 20180726 and the solution
presented was to have the release upgrader do the "right" thing by
upgrading your system until you hit an LTS. So if you are running zesty
and have "Prompt=lts" set then it would upgrade you to artful, then
bionic and then stop because bionic is an LTS release.
** Also affects: software-properties (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
** Tags removed: rls-cc-incoming
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783328
Title:
The option to select LTS notifications should be masked in non-LTS
versions
Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in software-properties source package in Cosmic:
Confirmed
Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Cosmic:
Confirmed
Bug description:
I have been bitten by _not_ knowing that selecting "Notify me of a new
Ubuntu version: For long-term support versions" in a non-LTS(17.10)
software-properties-gtk dialog box would simply silently fail to
inform users that they are no longer receiving updates to their Ubuntu
installs.
Please mask or hide the option to select "For long-term support
versions" if the currently running version is a non-LTS version(grep
or awk the /etc/os-release file or some-such for the LTS string).
It is non-intuitive to see this option as available to select and not
receive warning of its hazards.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.21
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Tue Jul 24 07:30:11 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-21 (64 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180426)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades:
2018-05-24T11:23:48.670462
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