Re: What happens when Woody becomes Stable ??

[Aurelio Turco <azt@bom.gov.au>]

Brian Nelson wrote:
> 
> DashepDS@netscape.net (David Shepherd) writes:
> > When Woody is released as 3.0 and becomes Stable do I just so a
> > "apt-get dist-upgrade"?
> 
> Yup.
> 
> > Or do I need to do some kind of reinstall?
> 
> Nope.
>

Some will argue that it is good to do a complete reinstall
occasionally, atleast on major distribution upgrades, as
a kind of periodic spring cleaning (ensuring old and no
longer needed files and directory structures etc get
purged from the system).
Distributions like Mandrake and Redhat seem to imply this.
Debian seems to prefer otherwise?