Re: woody/sarge vs. stable/testing in sources.list
Incoming from Michael Kahle:
> Wednesday, May 19, 2004 5:14 AM Colin Watson wrote:
> > I *strongly* recommend against upgrading by cron job. Just don't do
> > it; there are lots of ways it can break.
>
> I have heard this mentioned before. Could you elaborate? Why is this a
> problem? Please excuse my inexperience here.
A few weeks ago, a kernel-image package (security fix) was released
that didn't contain any kernel modules. Oops.
>From one release to the next, things change their names; usb -->
usb-uhci (or whatever). Yes, your hardware is still supported, but
not by the module you told it supports it.
It's a complex system and you can't expect the Debian
developers/release team to have thought of everything; you're not
paying them enough to be immortals.
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