Re: Differences between volatile and volatile-sloppy
Hi Stephen,
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 04:19:12PM +0100, Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Martin said:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just added volatile to my sources.list. I wonder what the difference is
> > between volatile and volatile-sloppy?
>
> Packages in volatile offer a clean upgrade path from sarge. Packages in
> volatile-sloppy are built for sarge, but may need some manual work
> during upgrade. In other words, they run up against the edge of the
> hippocratic oath that volatile has taken.
Read as in: eg. Config option might have changed between sarge and
volatile -> no clean upgrade path, but in most cases should work.
Greetings
Martin
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