4.5 in etch? You mean the obsolete package that was left from sarge? ;-) Oh well I just went the way from the obsolete 4.5.x to 6.6-3~bpo40+1 (etch).
You do not need to upgrade every minor version. (see http://drupal.org/upgrade/) In my case what I had to do was: - 4.5.x -> 4.7.x (the latest in the 4.x series) - 4.7.x -> 5.18 (the latest in the next major series) - 5.18 -> 6.6-3~bpo40+1 Each time you should backup the current database (so that you can try the step at hand again, if it fails, like it did in my case in the second step since it seems 5.18 needs a higher memory_limit for php than the latest 4.x release did). You then just delete /usr/share/drupal and extract the new version there. Of course make sure to backup your site config and themes (they are now elegantly stored in /etc), however they won't all work properly. An adventurous person might try skipping the second step, however it is not recommended. I guess that is what your request was about, since the 5.x was skipped in Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
