Comment 2 for bug 1602066
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| Erick Brunzell (lbsolost) wrote Re: QA Tracker should include a test case for HWE EOL upgrades | #2 |
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I'd have no idea how to write a test case for this. I was just looking at the Precise HWE EOL wiki and one of the prime bits would be waiting for the addition of 'hwe-support-
This is complex enough it would at the very least require involvement of the Xorg team and Kernel team (since those are the main components upgraded in an HWE EOL upgrade), but also maintainers of 'update-
The Trusty dailies are still on the lts-wily HWE bits but once the lts-xenial bits appear to have all landed I thought about trying a manual HWE upgrade similar to this (I'd just replace wily with xenial):
https:/
Of course an apt-cache policy search for each package may be wise to rule out different sonames and such, but that still may not be truly representative of what the update-manager does via hwe-support-status.
All in all it requires someone much smarter than I am. I'm just looking for some way of avoiding what was a very buggy Precise HWE EOL experience when Trusty reaches that point in the coming weeks.