Indeed, I no longer use do-release-upgrade and instead find it "easier" to install the new release from scratch and copy my ~user and other backups over. It's

Indeed, I no longer use do-release-upgrade and instead find it "easier" to install the new release from scratch and copy my ~user and other backups over. It's a PITA (have to install all the packages I had on old version), but I have scripts that mostly do it all for me now. If you've ever lived through a do-release-upgrade for mysql, you'll probably never do it again.