[Expired for ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) because there has been no
activity for 60 days.]
** Changed in: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Expired
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That has a lot of assumptions, the chiefest being that said numbering and
naming is public.
This is the first I've heard of it and I've been using ubuntu since somewhere
around 7, after switching off of debian. Most of the third party sources are
still back further.
In my case, I'd missed the
Mirrors are free to drop a release anytime AFTER the release reaches
EOL.
The month is known (ie. 19.10 meant the 2019-October release, so it'll
be 9 months after release date), though the EOL may not occur 9 months
to the day, but between that date & end-of-the-month.
19.10 reached EOL, and was
Blocking packages:
python-gi
openscenegraph (and libraries)
libcamera-info-manager-dev (and dependencies)
libroscpp-dev
libxmlrpcpp-dev
libb64-dev
After that, upgrading was unblocked.
It doesn't make a lot of sense why the above would be a problem, except
python-gi maybe as it was python2.7
I'll put it in friendlier form:
- apt should have a notice
- dpkg-upgrade should function.
Those are the issues.
Breaking down why dpkg-upgrade failed meant randomly (or not quite randomly, I
did read the log files for hints) removing system components until it
functioned. As python is used
If there's no notification on shell, then developers who are primarily
shell based like me who block all notifications anyway will be missed.
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I was using it because of company software that wouldn't work on useful.
But why did no notification of end of life happen on Dec 11 2020?
Why did everything just 404 with no explanation?
Why did I have to keep searching for mirrors until the updater would even
process?
Why did the upgrade on
Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 19.10 (eoan) reached end-of-life on July 17, 2020.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested
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I was also given no notice that the release was discontinued. It took a
day of searching why I could not do "apt-get update" as every response
came back 404 to figure this out.
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