On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 08:38:40PM -0500, Erick Brunzell wrote: > Going a bit off-topic here but I'd appreciate any interested members of > ubuntu-release forwarding this to all interested parties. I'm in hopes of > being allowed at least a few days (preferably a week) of testing HWE EOL > upgrades, when they become available, before making them available to the > general public. I opened a bug report regarding this: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual-tests/+bug/1602066 > > I'm a devoted iso/upgrade tester but I lack the skills to figure out exactly > how to do that. I noticed an update to 'update-manager*' in proposed today, > so I updated the three related packages on a Trusty w/Utopic HWE stack, and > then tried running update-manager -p and update-manager -d -c but only the > Trusty -> Xenial upgrade is offered.
Thanks for you interest in testing these features. Running update-manager with those switches is used for a release upgrade from one release to another. Just running update-manager, without any switches, under the right conditions would warn you about your HWE stack being out of date and offer an option to install a new HWE stack. > Would it be possible to create a test-case and then perform some pre-HWE EOL > testing so we can try to avoid the mess we encountered when those who > installed using 12.04.2, 12.04.3, and 12.04.4 media reached HWE EOL. My bug > report includes numerous links to the type of problems we encountered. I've added information regarding how to test HWE support in update-manager to that bug you opened. -- Brian Murray
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