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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1975433 Title: Allow skipping one LTS release, upgrading from version N.04LTS to N+2.04LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-release-upgrader/+bug/1975433/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs