** Description changed:

- On a bionic system with Prompt=lts set in /etc/update-manager/release-
- upgrades, 'do-release-upgrade -d' fails with:
+ Impact
+ ------
+ A confusing error message is returned if Prompt=lts is set and 
'do-release-upgrade -d' is run.
  
- $ sudo do-release-upgrade -d 
+ Test Case
+ ---------
+ N.B. The changed code will never be reached on an 18.10 unless you hack line 
236 of /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py so that 
"self.new_dist = None'".
+ 
+ 1) set Prompt=lts in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades
+ 2) run do-release-upgrade -d 
+ 3) Observe the error from the original description
+ 
+ With versions of update-manager and ubuntu-release-upgrader (which
+ depends on the changes in update-manager) from -proposed you will
+ instead see a message about "no development version of an LTS available"
+ and details about how to modify Prompt.
+ 
+ Also note there is no independent test case for update-manager as it is
+ now just exporting a new variable which is used by ubuntu-release-
+ upgrader.
+ 
+ Original Description
+ --------------------
+ On a bionic system with Prompt=lts set in 
/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades, 'do-release-upgrade -d' fails with:
+ 
+ $ sudo do-release-upgrade -d
  Checking for a new Ubuntu release
- Upgrades to the development release are only 
+ Upgrades to the development release are only
  available from the latest supported release.
  $ echo $?
  1
  $
  
  The refusal to upgrade is correct, but the message it gives is incorrect
  and gives no hint how to fix.
  
- Since bionic is the latest release listed in 
https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts *and* in 
https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts-development, a more accurate 
explanation would be: 
-    There is no development version of an LTS release available.
-    To upgrade to the latest non-LTS development release, set Prompt=normal.
+ Since bionic is the latest release listed in 
https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts *and* in 
https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release-lts-development, a more accurate 
explanation would be:
+    There is no development version of an LTS release available.
+    To upgrade to the latest non-LTS development release, set Prompt=normal.

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