On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:20:28AM -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > In general, skipping major versions has never been supported. An > upgrade from etch to squeeze should always involve a short stop in > lenny. of course, but doing these two upgrades one after another on a couple of machines is still easier than doing the first one on all the machines, and then the second one a few months later. especially if you factor in paperwork and explanations of changes that might be required. i fully agree with thiemo, having the security support of release N run out when the security support for N+2 starts would be *very* cool, then people could skip releases if the cost/risk of upgrading is high and the need for brand new software is low. in fact if you look at the past releases [0], you will see that we were almost there with the last two releases. admittedly the start of security support for lenny is very early in that diagram, whether that is true is questionable. cu robert [0] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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