changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement missing, causes distro upgrade failure on EOL systems

Bug #1569233 reported by 林博仁(Buo-ren Lin)
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Brian Murray

Bug Description

Update Manager will read http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release and sequentially try to access http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement for ${release}+1's release notes, however the file on http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement is missing and Update Manager will complain "Could not find the release notes - The server may be overloaded" error message and interrupt the entire upgrade process.

While this bug does appears on EOL release, it's still valid as EOL Upgrade still needs to be working to upgrade to a supported release.

## Bug Reproduce Steps ##
1. Grab & install an EOL'd Ubuntu release(e.g. Ubuntu 14.10)
2. Switch software source to old-releases.ubuntu.com
3. Update software source cache and fully upgrade the system
4. Run Update Manager and hit the release upgrade button

## Workarounds ##
Use `do-release-upgrade` command instead, which don't check the release note

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林博仁(Buo-ren Lin) (brlin) wrote :
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

Thanks, the best way to fix this is to actually modify the ReleaseNotes URL in the meta-release files on changelogs.ubuntu.com.

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Brian Murray (brian-murray)
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

On second thought let's just make a generic EOLReleaseAnnouncement and put it on the changelogs server.

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This now exists on the changelogs server.

http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/EOLReleaseAnnouncement

Changed in ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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