-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19.11.2013 21:18, Robie Basak wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:04:59PM +0200, Timo Aaltonen wrote: >> AIUI LTS releases don't offer upgrades to interim releases (by >> default), only when the new LTS is available? > > Right. > > But imagine the situation without HWE. > > I'm on Precise. Quantal is released, and I want to upgrade to it. > It doesn't appear by default, and the standard answer is to > specifically request through the GUI that all release upgrades are > displayed rather than only LTS release upgrades. Then a release > upgrade to Quantal appears, and I select it. AIUI, this is the > supported way of doing it. > > Now consider the same upgrade situation with HWE (which you say is > not supported). In my ignorance, I do exactly the same thing. I > request it to show me all available upgrades, not just LTS ones. > The release upgrade to Quantal appears. I select it. My system > breaks. > > So I don't think that saying that you have to explictly select it > is a reasonable excuse. This is the recommended way of upgrading up > from an LTS to a standard release for non-HWE installations. I do > not necessarily know that an HWE upgrade to a standard release is > not supported. I may not even know that I have an HWE stack > installed. The GUI behaves exactly the same, provides no warning > with the identical process, and causes my system to break. > > Save for any other explanation, this sounds like a Critical bug in > update-manager to me, since it causes the system to become > unusable through a process that the user would otherwise expect to > work, but is actually not supported in a particular configuration > that the user ends up in by default. > > Does this make sense? Does you disagree, or should I go ahead and > file this bug?
Makes perfect sense, don't disagree at all. This was one of the points of the discussion around "pockets vs renames", that upgrades to 12.10 were a big no-no. Apparently the upgrader wasn't updated to know about that fact. Not pointing any fingers.. a bug report even this late certainly won't hurt. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIbBAEBAgAGBQJSi7sMAAoJEMtwMWWoiYTcNOAP+Lnvhc8pqWsSck2AFeN1U4V8 lh6DK49hbrJwn6sAy90JoRPlZK53chvYj2K7ruMXPFVKiZF2kJJ/oEmesVG3CrbA 3HILAETPHj1OYAzlCwG339uwS9fPF1bFWpWnmkBkMAhiXlApw1NFivps/y6Dsf0e pTfZUpHtdj9anQFRYkzxSn952vx3gMP8TrCKg1cTjoEAb3UWLLZJj7t/yGp4+5G0 mn10Pnds5xBsF6CEgoWPPoqir95aAHR+VnwuSVg54LbXAbR58/stm/FDBXJssLpX JXIOzSI2Ae2ZMuEByx/fAQQtlFVu1I6zsG/X2aU9mqP6Bt+SuhUqIrZksVMUgAKx pDedUrRVQKb1XpvKFA0lqDRI0QeJOe0idTA9UHHsWoT54KomY44vCQtMFFq2SJ2z plYbdmVM7g39jyJKMKpsKGBjHu9vm/SqMW7/6rsCnVaC7cw55ItgPe4mxwdqHCi1 dhN5OSBGy88WQa9UvNXG5Pesj0mEI7D4eLRPtO4tlG/KJGCr8/irudVbExDu1dlh yuh5x3nCJOQFG5I3GYHUporAuWd2jPkhjWqwv2GdMQ/KhmMw/NeY2bgv8hicpShD 4hcInIhKLpmpP+EFi6WT6uKU3smqwRm/SUGdrje0OOifm06IDFaF0ru8oXI74fu9 Q0upsCVuX9KJZMd3wHQ= =WamD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
