wanted to upgrade ubuntu 14.04 to 14.10

[Prashant U Manohar]

I see that currently, ubuntu support is ON for versions 12.04 LTS, 14.04 LTS and 15.04 and 15.10.
I have 14.04 (probably 14.04.3) installed on my 32-bit dell laptop. I want to try the non-long-term-support versions between 14.04 and the forthcoming 16.04 LTS versions. I searched on internet if it is possible to directly upgrade from 14.04 to 15.04 or 15.10, but it says that I have to go step by step, that is, upgrade in the sequence: 14.04 --> 14.10 --> 15.04 --> 15.10 or, optionally, to only consider upgrade to next long-term version 16.04
I want to suggest that, even if the long-term support version has updates later to the discontinuation of support of the next non-LTS version, the upgradation should be possible.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:0.220.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-73.116-generic 3.13.11-ckt30
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-73-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
Architecture: i386
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Fri Dec 11 09:20:11 2015
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-01-08 (336 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release i386 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-12-11 (0 days ago)
mtime.conffile..etc.update.manager.release.upgrades: 2015-12-11T08:53:39.413220

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.