Re: Bits from the Security Team

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: Bits from the Security Team"):
> On the other hand, going directly from oldoldstable to stable pulls in
> 4 years of changes, and I think that's likely to result in having to
> keep too many workarounds and too much cruft for too long, and having
> to hold back progress for too long. For instance, wanting to be able
> to do the upgrade from oldstable to stable using oldstable's apt and
> dpkg means it already takes us 2 years to deploy an archive-wide
> feature like dpkg multiarch - I wouldn't want it to take 4.

Package management tools are a special case.  I imagine the way you'd
do it would be to ship the new tools, built against oldoldstable, in a
special skip-upgrade partial suite.

I don't think this is at all impossible.

Ian.