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? Robie
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