Re: Still on stretch, getting ready for bullseye

[Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk>]

On Tue, 2021-08-17 at 22:01 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:48:10PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Tuesday 17 August 2021 18:48:34 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> > > [an abridged version of the release notes]
> 
> > Thank you Andy, thats more of the recipe I need to follow.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 
> See, *this* is exactly what I tried to avoid -- giving someone an
> inferior version of the release notes, empowering their laziness,
> and possibly leading them into a failed state due to skippng some
> of the important warnings.
> 
> With a normal system, a shortened version of the upgrade procedure
> without the warnings and pre-checks and post-checks might be OK,
> but this is *Gene*.  We know he does not have normal systems.
> 
> He needs *all* of the warnings.
> 

I agree with all of the above, but as the saying goes: 'you can lead a
horse to water, but you can't make him drink'.

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Tixy