Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

[Nicolas François <nicolas.francois@centraliens.net>]

Hello Osamu,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:18:22PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:08:01PM -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
> > Security support will be dis-continued for etch on
> > Feb 15th.   It'd be nice to fix the upgrade document
> > while people are still upgrading.
> 
> Could you elaborate what part of "upgrade document" is affected in what
> way?  ...and which document are you talking as "upgrade document"?

It's in the release notes

> Can you copy URL or something so we do not need to second guess inside
> your thought?

http://www.fr.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.html#aptupgrade1st

I think Karl indicates that there will be no more oldstable support soon,
so some people might think about urging the oldstable -> stable upgrade.

The problem with this bug is that there are no generic upgrade path.
The upgrade may fail with apt-get or with aptitude.

I made tested with the various default Debian installs, and I could not
find a generic upgrade path that always work.

-- 
Nekral