On Wed, 29 Nov 2017, deloptes wrote:
Jonathan Dowland wrote:however, someone upgrading from such a long release ago is not something that will have been thoroughly tested and it's quite possible that an old init script that was modified (and therefore won't be replaced by package upgrades) could come along for the ride and cause problems.The release and upgrade notes are sufficient they state upgrade to next release and then to next release. I had few problems from wheezy to lenny,
Heh, I'll bet you did.
but almost no problem from lenny to stretch.
Whoa. The magic touch!
Just follow the upgrade instructions for each release going to the next
And make sure you're actually going to the *next* release.