Re: Confused about dist-upgrade
On Sat 25 Jan 2014 at 20:51:46 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:25:01AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> > On Fri 24 Jan 2014 at 11:54:12 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> >
> > > The recommended way is specific to each release and thoroughly
> > > documented in the Release Notes.
> >
> > Which is where I got what I wrote from:
>
> I bet it was only for the recent ones.
You would win the bet if we went back far enough. But considering Bob
Bernstein only mentioned upgrading from Squeeze to Wheezy it was
perfectly adequate as a short response to his post. So I saw no need
to raise the spectre of dselect. :)
> I think we are doing our best avoid complications but the canonical
> place for the recommended way is the Release Notes. Nothing else.
>
> So as a baseline, process you described is fine. But Andrei's point is
> very important.
Of course it is; good job I quoted from the Notes and gave a link to
them.
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