Re: Supported upgrade path
Luigi Gangitano writes ("Supported upgrade path"):
> I'd like to ask for advice on something that is not in any DD best-
> practice documentation.
>
> In the last few years some of my packages have accumulated work-
> arounds for issues on upgrade from old versions. This makes
> maintainer scripts big and difficult to maintain.
Does it make them hard to maintain ? Surely you can just add new
stuff and keep the old as well.
> Since Debian doesn't support, nor test, upgrades from versions older
> than the stable-1 version is it correct to remove upgrade checks for
> versions older than the one in stable-1?
It's hard to say what Debian does or does not `support'. I don't
think skipping-releases upgrades are unreasonable and I have done them
with success in the past.
Ian.
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