Comment 0 for bug 1602066

Presumably sometime in August those who installed Trusty using the 14.04.2, 14.04.3, and 14.04.4 media will be presented with HWE EOL warnings, and they'll have the choice of either upgrading to Xenial or performing an HWE upgrade. No test case exists for HWE upgrades.

I began saving a list of web links of problems encountered when Precise users were notified of HWE EOL in anticipation of recommending that we amend our download page to recommend users always try the first point release. I chose not to do that because the 14.04.1 images were affected by bug #1265192 which could result in data loss. (That may be worth pursuing prior to 16.04.2 but that's a whole different issue).

Anyway here's a partial list of problems encountered when Precise users hit HWE EOL (I'd think we'd want to avoid this for Trusty HWE EOL):

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234260

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234815

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234813

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234830

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234693

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234922

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234729

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235159

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235287

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235698

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236081

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235843

http://askubuntu.com/questions/493541/hardware-enablement-stack-hwe-out-of-support

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236096

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2235113

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236129

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1328264

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2236584

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2237132

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2237277