[conspire] Ubuntu 9.04

[Nick Moffitt]

Rick Moen:
> Quoting =JeffH (Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com):
> > (there were some stories of issues with the auto LTS->LTS upgrade
> > the last time). 
> 
> Ah, you mean the severely and completely broken 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron
> to 10.04.1 LTS Lucid Lynx upgrade path that I encountered this past
> March, almost a year after Lucid Lynx had been released?
> http://lists.svlug.org/archives/volunteers/2011q1/003590.html I was
> severely underwhelmed by that, and thought it a pretty appalling
> failure.  Almost a year to fix invalid file descriptors in a single
> Ubuntu package (tar) that made their supposedly _safest_ upgrade path
> not work on kernel revisions below 2.6.22, and they couldn't bother to
> fix it?  Wow, that's a pretty ppor showing.[1]

Huh, I thought do-release-upgrade was only supported for LTS->LTS in the
XX.XX.2 releases.  Were you maybe doing a manual `apt-get dist-upgrade`?
That's not supported for big leaps like this, I'm afraid.

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