Hard times upgrading Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04

Recently, I decided to do a reinstall of Ubuntu 20.04 on my home computer.  This is what it came shipped with.  The overall process was a breeze, as Dell has made factory re-installs a snap (no pun intended).  However, I ran into issues when attempting to upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04. 

I kept getting the following error whenever I attempted to run 

scott@scott-Precision-3650-Tower:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Failed to connect to https://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release. Check your Internet connection or proxy settings
No new release found.

I then checked into the firewall on my system, and made sure 1022/TCP was open, per many posts on the web.  Still no go.  

Luckily, I found a post from Reddit user PhoenixOneThree who mentioned that adding the following lines to your /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/UpdateManager/Core/MetaRelease.py file would allow the upgrade to run.  

import ssl
ssl._create_default_https_context = ssl._create_unverified_context

https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/yajzo2/upgrade_2004_to_2204_fails_because_of_https/

Once I added the lines to my MetaRelease.py file, it allowed the upgrade to take place.  

scott@scott-Precision-3650-Tower:~$ sudo do-release-upgrade
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [819 B]                                                                                         
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,266 kB]                                                                                                
Fetched 1,267 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                                                               
authenticate 'jammy.tar.gz' against 'jammy.tar.gz.gpg' 
extracting 'jammy.tar.gz'

Reading cache

Checking package manager
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done

The install went off without a hitch.  Now, I will admit that since I don't know the full effects of adding the line to the MetaRelease.py file, once the upgrade was complete, I checked the MetaRelease.py file, the import ssl entries were removed.