Activity log for bug #1807043

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2018-12-05 23:12:31 Brian Murray bug added bug
2018-12-05 23:12:51 Brian Murray tags bionic cosmic rls-dd-incoming
2018-12-05 23:12:58 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): importance Undecided Medium
2018-12-05 23:13:01 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): status New In Progress
2018-12-05 23:13:04 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): assignee Brian Murray (brian-murray)
2018-12-06 13:34:07 Francis Ginther tags bionic cosmic rls-dd-incoming bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming
2018-12-11 00:28:53 Launchpad Janitor branch linked lp:~brian-murray/ubuntu-release-upgrader/improve-upgrade-failure-messages
2018-12-13 15:43:07 Launchpad Janitor ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu): status In Progress Fix Released
2018-12-14 18:47:30 Brian Murray nominated for series Ubuntu Bionic
2018-12-14 18:47:30 Brian Murray bug task added ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Bionic)
2018-12-14 18:47:30 Brian Murray nominated for series Ubuntu Cosmic
2018-12-14 18:47:30 Brian Murray bug task added ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic)
2018-12-14 18:47:36 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Bionic): status New Triaged
2018-12-14 18:47:39 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic): status New Triaged
2018-12-14 18:47:42 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Bionic): importance Undecided Medium
2018-12-14 18:47:45 Brian Murray ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic): importance Undecided Medium
2018-12-21 21:44:33 Brian Murray description When rewriting sources.list entries the release-upgrader doesn't check to see if the distribution to which the system is being upgraded is supported by the archive / PPA. This results in the following error message: A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry. E:The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. If the release-upgrader were to actually check if the release were supported then that specific sources entry could be disabled and the upgrade may be able to proceed. [Impact] When rewriting sources.list entries the release-upgrader doesn't check to see if the distribution to which the system is being upgraded is supported by the archive / PPA. This results in the following error message: A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry. E:The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. If the release-upgrader were to actually check if the release were supported then that specific sources entry could be disabled and the upgrade may be able to proceed. [Test Case] The test case involves adding a PPA which doesn't have a release file for the release to which you are upgrading for upgrading to cosmic we can use the team-xbmc ppa. 1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa 2) do-release-upgrade --frontend DistUpgradeViewText 3) Observe the error message re "does not have a Release file".
2018-12-21 22:02:58 Brian Murray description [Impact] When rewriting sources.list entries the release-upgrader doesn't check to see if the distribution to which the system is being upgraded is supported by the archive / PPA. This results in the following error message: A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry. E:The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. If the release-upgrader were to actually check if the release were supported then that specific sources entry could be disabled and the upgrade may be able to proceed. [Test Case] The test case involves adding a PPA which doesn't have a release file for the release to which you are upgrading for upgrading to cosmic we can use the team-xbmc ppa. 1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa 2) do-release-upgrade --frontend DistUpgradeViewText 3) Observe the error message re "does not have a Release file". [Impact] When rewriting sources.list entries the release-upgrader doesn't check to see if the distribution to which the system is being upgraded is supported by the archive / PPA. This results in the following error message: A problem occurred during the update. This is usually some sort of network problem, please check your network connection and retry. E:The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu cosmic Release' does not have a Release file. If the release-upgrader were to actually check if the release were supported then that specific sources entry could be disabled and the upgrade may be able to proceed. [Test Case] The test case involves adding a PPA which doesn't have a release file for the release to which you are upgrading for upgrading to cosmic we can use the team-xbmc ppa. 1) sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/ppa 2) do-release-upgrade --frontend DistUpgradeViewText 3) Observe the error message re "does not have a Release file" and the upgrade cancel. With the version of the release upgrader from -proposed you will instead see the following message: "Some third party entries in your sources.list were disabled.". Then the release upgrade will proceed to the calculation phase, you can quit the upgrade after the calculation and check /var/log/dist-upgrade/main.log for the following: DEBUG entry '# deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/team-xbmc/ppa/ubuntu bionic main' was disabled (no Release file) [Regression Potential] It seems like an oversight that this part of the release-upgrader never did check for Release files and that this is the right thing to do. Its possible that people who were not allowed to upgrade, because they had PPAs without support for the release to which they wanted to upgrade, are now allowed to upgrade and somehow run in to an upgrade failure e.g. a failure to calculate the upgrade. That seems better and more informative than not allowing them to upgrade at all though.
2019-01-08 16:29:59 Łukasz Zemczak ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Triaged Fix Committed
2019-01-08 16:30:00 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-01-08 16:30:03 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber SRU Verification
2019-01-08 16:30:07 Łukasz Zemczak tags bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic
2019-01-09 23:14:34 Brian Murray tags bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-needed verification-needed-cosmic bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-done verification-done-cosmic
2019-01-15 23:48:41 Launchpad Janitor ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic): status Fix Committed Fix Released
2019-01-15 23:49:04 Chris Halse Rogers removed subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-01-22 17:46:28 Łukasz Zemczak ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Bionic): status Triaged Fix Committed
2019-01-22 17:46:29 Łukasz Zemczak bug added subscriber Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team
2019-01-22 17:46:32 Łukasz Zemczak tags bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-done verification-done-cosmic bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
2019-01-23 15:21:15 Brian Murray tags bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-done-cosmic verification-needed verification-needed-bionic bionic cosmic id-5b5b2ceb30bee3278544fe94 rls-dd-incoming verification-done verification-done-bionic verification-done-cosmic
2019-01-31 09:20:22 Launchpad Janitor ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Bionic): status Fix Committed Fix Released