Thanks, Brian. That sounds reasonable and would---in fact, accomplish what
I _thought_ it was supposed to do when I was setting it on end-user
installs so that I could expose features and functionality of a non-LTS
version while assuming it would pause at the next LTS.

I appreciate you feedback. Any ideas when this might be implemented? Is
there a bug I can track to be notified of the functionality changes?



On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 11:51 AM Brian Murray <email address hidden> wrote:

> This was discussed in #ubuntu-meeting on 20180726 and the solution
> presented was to have the release upgrader do the "right" thing by
> upgrading your system until you hit an LTS. So if you are running zesty
> and have "Prompt=lts" set then it would upgrade you to artful, then
> bionic and then stop because bionic is an LTS release.
>
> ** Also affects: software-properties (Ubuntu Cosmic)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: Confirmed
>
> ** Also affects: ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu Cosmic)
>    Importance: Undecided
>        Status: Confirmed
>
> ** Tags removed: rls-cc-incoming
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1783328
>
> Title:
>   The option to select LTS notifications should be masked in non-LTS
>   versions
>
> Status in software-properties package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
> Status in software-properties source package in Cosmic:
>   Confirmed
> Status in ubuntu-release-upgrader source package in Cosmic:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   I have been bitten by _not_ knowing that selecting "Notify me of a new
>   Ubuntu version:  For long-term support versions" in a non-LTS(17.10)
>   software-properties-gtk dialog box would simply silently fail to
>   inform users that they are no longer receiving updates to their Ubuntu
>   installs.
>
>   Please mask or hide the option to select "For long-term support
>   versions" if the currently running version is a non-LTS version(grep
>   or awk the /etc/os-release file or some-such for the LTS string).
>
>   It is non-intuitive to see this option as available to select and not
>   receive warning of its hazards.
>
>   ProblemType: Bug
>   DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
>   Package: ubuntu-release-upgrader-core 1:18.04.21
>   ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-29.31-generic 4.15.18
>   Uname: Linux 4.15.0-29-generic x86_64
>   ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.2
>   Architecture: amd64
>   CrashDB: ubuntu
>   Date: Tue Jul 24 07:30:11 2018
>   InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-21 (64 days ago)
>   InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64
> (20180426)
>   PackageArchitecture: all
>   ProcEnviron:
>    TERM=xterm-256color
>    PATH=(custom, no user)
>    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>    SHELL=/bin/bash
>   SourcePackage: ubuntu-release-upgrader
>   UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>   mtime.conffile..etc.update-manager.release-upgrades:
> 2018-05-24T11:23:48.670462
>
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