upgrade path
Bruce Perens wrote:
>
> You could try lobbying Guy Maor (gently, please). But there has to be a
> date beyond even updates for an old release get purged. We want the mirror
> space for more current stuff, and with $4 CDs nobody has much of an excuse
> for missing upgrades any more.
> From: Joost Kooij <jkooij@best.ms.philips.com>
> What are the implications of these words Bruce? I hope Debian stays
> dedicated to providing an easy upgrade path across several major
> releases. Just because it is now _possible_ to upgrade about monthly
> from a cd doesn't mean that everybody who doesn't (for whatever reason)
> needs an excuse for that. I think that I just misread the intention of
> your words, but I still wish to express my concern about this issue.
We want it to be easy for people to upgrade. However, it's currently
difficult for people who had 1.1 on their systems to upgrade to 1.3,
because the best way to do this was to install 1.2 and then 1.3 . You can
go straight from 1.1 to 1.3, but I hear this is much more difficult.
We kept the files for 1.2 on our 75 mirror sites for a good long time after
1.3 came out, and then we removed them. Nobody complained by the time we
removed them, so I guess everyone who wanted to upgrade got the files in time.
When you look at the size of our FTP archive it's clear we need to remove
stuff eventually. I'd be happy to have a site where old stuff could remain
for a much longer time - is anyone still keeping 1.2 on-line?
Unfortunately, saving "deltas" between releases doesn't work any better than
saving the entire release. For 2.0 _every_ package changes because the C
library changes. For 1.3, most packages changed.
Bruce
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