Public bug reported:
While I am generally happy with LTS being stable, oftentimes I find
myself in the need to upgrade one package to a more recent version.
Most of the times the version I seek is not included in backports and
instead published by individuals or orgs via ppa.
Eventually this version gets included in the second next LTS release, so
an alternative to third party sources is to perform a LTS upgrade.
But Ubuntu only supports this LTS version to immediately next LTS
release, while I have installed version N and the current version is
N+2, so I must perform two upgrades to get that newer package, thus
double the effort and time spent.
I wish Ubuntu offered even unsupported a method to skip one intermediary
LTS upgrade and allow direct LTS to LTS+2 upgrades, or find a way to
provide LTS+2 popular packages to LTS releases.
In my particular case I am struggling with a previously not reported
issue of samba that crashes; their wiki asks to reproduce on a
maintained version, while my current LTS and even the LTS+1 both ship
discontinued versions. I tried running a maintained version from a third
party ppa, but that doesn't ship a debugging package containing symbols
which are required by upstream when submiting issues. I'd like to avoid
getting dirty resorting to the ultimate solution of compiling from
source.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:22.04.10
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-27.28-generic 5.15.30
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-27-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Mon May 23 02:33:46 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-30 (173 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
Symptom: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-01-25 (117 days ago)
VarLogDistupgradeAptlog:
Log time: 2022-01-25 18:44:34.507058
Log time: 2022-01-25 18:44:42.846637
Log time: 2022-01-25 18:45:20.578650
VarLogDistupgradeTermlog:
** Affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug dist-upgrade jammy third-party-packages
** Attachment removed: "CurrentDmesg.txt.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1975433/+attachment/5592075/+files/CurrentDmesg.txt.txt
** Attachment removed: "JournalErrors.txt"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1975433/+attachment/5592077/+files/JournalErrors.txt
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Title:
Allow skipping one LTS release, upgrading from version N.04LTS to
N+2.04LTS
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