Re: Simplification of text in Chapter 1 - What's new in the Release Notes
Or you could completely drop discussion of what used to be.
How about:
"Please note that beginning with Debian GNU/Linux 3.1, we only support
and document upgrading from the previous version (in this case, upgrading
from 3.0)."
This avoids the translators looking up "penultimate".
On 6/7/05, Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl> wrote:
> > Please note that previous editions of the release notes contained
> > information about upgrading from releases older than than the previous
> > release. However such content often complicated the documentation so
> > we have decided to only discuss upgrades from Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
> > ('woody'). If you need to upgrade from older releases please read
> > previous editions of the release notes.
>
>
> If this passage is needed at all then I suggest this:
>
> The release notes for earlier releases contained information about "skip
> upgrades" -- that is, about upgrades from penultimate (or earlier)
> releases. Skip upgrades are not officially supported by Debian and this
> process is no longer documented in the release notes.
>
> --
> Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>
>
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