Bug#608022: [PATCH v2 0/2] Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 20:35 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:

>> [Subject: Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny]
>>
>> Bug#608022
>
> Thanks for this.

For what it's worth,
Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>

> [...]
>> --- a/en/upgrading.dbk
>> +++ b/en/upgrading.dbk
>> @@ -277,6 +277,12 @@ upgrade process, you may wish to remove third-party packages from your system
>>  before you begin upgrading.
>>  </para>
>>  <para>
>> +Direct upgrades from Debian releases older than &oldrelease; are not supported.
>
> Do we want &oldrelease; or &oldreleasename; here?  (Likewise below)

I'd say "5.0 (lenny)" here, "5.0" below.

>> +Please follow the instructions in the <ulink
>> +url="http://www.debian.org/releases/&oldreleasename;/releasenotes";>Release
>> +notes for &debian; &oldrelease;</ulink> to upgrade to &oldrelease; first.
>
> Release Notes. :-)

Yes, good catch.  A patch with that fix incorporated follows, followed
by Osamu's suggestion for the chapter title.

Jonathan Nieder (1):
  Clarify 'upgrading' chapter title

Julien Cristau (1):
  Recommend against direct upgrades from releases older than lenny

 en/upgrading.dbk |    9 ++++++++-
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)