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Why don't you have downgrade tool?? I know it's a challenge but that's what LINUX is to accept the challenge. See I have installed Ubuntu 14.10 and I am very happy from it but I am not getting any software updates because its not LTS. So now I want to downgrade it, because I want my softwares up to date and security too. Now to go back to 14.04 LTS, I have to install again with cd or USB stick, it's tedious job. So u can make a downgrade tool.

Dinesh Rathod
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In the most cases, you would have a broken system. Start a upgrade to 15.04 to get security updates and wait for the next LTS release (16.04). 

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

After that, change the update behavior to LTS.

Check the file /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades. Prompt=normal offers upgrades from any release to a newer release; Prompt=never never offers release upgrades; Prompt=lts only offers upgrades from LTS to LTS. You need root privileges to edit this file.

partially taken from here

But I have an idea. You're right, that's Linux and you can do what you want. You could create a downgrade tool. ;)

A.B.
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