Re: apt sources.list
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 10:02:04AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > I disagree. People may want to periodically run apt-get upgrade to keep
> > > up-to-date on critical/security bug fixes but might not want to do a
> > > major system upgrade without some preparation. Obviously that's not true
> > > in all cases, but I think "shouldn't" is too strong here.
> >
> > You're forgetting that Debian doesn't support obsoleted stable releases.
> > (note that I don't have a strong opinion on that, just stating the fact)
>
> No, I'm not forgetting that fact. I'm also not suggesting that people
> not upgrade. I am suggesting that people might want to prepare before
> upgrading most of the packages on the system. (Notify users, schedule
> downtime, whatever.) In that case it is better for the apt source to
> break when a new release is made than to tranparently start using the
> new release.
Oh, right. I agree.
Who will file the bug report? Wouter?
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