@Brian Murray: Thank you for pointing us to the exiosting bug report!
Also, I understand your judgement, but I would like to comment on it.
While it might be a bad idea to suggest to users they should select an
upgrade path that may land them in a release that is not well supported
or deemed insecure , it  is my humble opinion that there should at least
be an override switch for those that "know what they are doing"™ as is
the way for Linux/Unix.

Implementing this with a big fat warning should not take a lot of
effort. Simply a switch "do-release-upgrade  --override 14.10" with a
message "WARNING: THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED: <lots of good reasons> Would
you like to continue? [y/N]".

Thanks!

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Title:
  update-manager insists on updating from 14.04 to 15.04 when this is
  not possible. It fails every time. It should suggest 14.10 as the
  upgrade path.

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