do-release-upgrade points you to a webpage that doesn't contain information about how to upgrade

[Brian Murray]

do-release-upgrade contains the following code:

  # make sure to inform the user if his distro is no longer supported
  # this will make it appear in motd (that calls do-release-upgrade in
  # check-new-release mode)
  if m.no_longer_supported is not None:
    url = "http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife"
    print(_("Your Ubuntu release is not supported anymore."))
    print(_("For upgrade information, please visit:\n"
            "%(url)s\n") % { 'url' : url })

If you go to url specified you'll notice that it does not actually contain information about how to upgrade from an End of Life release.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The oldest version of the url, found at archive.org[1], does not provide much guidance either. I wonder if presenting the url is useful at all.

http://web.archive.org/web/20111015235949/http://www.ubuntu.com/releaseendoflife

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Maybe just changing the message from "For upgrade information, please visit:" to "For release life cycle information, please visit" would be sufficient.