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Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)



On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:38:18PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:22:34PM +0100, Rob Bradford wrote:
> > be fun though. I'm planning to only support upgrades from potato and
> > woody. So that means i can remove all the cruft about upgrading from
> 
> I was under the impression (don't ask me how; perhaps my mind came up with
> it on it's own) that we only supported stable->stable+1 upgrades...
> 
> Obviously not.  Can anyone point me to a comprehensive rationale why not?

Mindless optimism. If you try skipping a release on a box with a fair
amount of stuff installed, expect to spend all day fixing it.

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