On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 03:33:26PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Charles Plessy writes ("Re: Dreamhost dumps Debian"): > > However, one difficulty that was not mentionned in this thread is that if we > > aim at both long term support and frequent releases, then we need to support > > users skipping releases or upgrading multiple releases in a row. > > I have done skip upgrades on multiple occasions. The fallout was > always manageable. (The most recent one was etch->squeeze IIRC.)
Why wouldn't you instead: sed -i s/etch/lenny/ /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get dist-upgrade sed -i s/lenny/squeeze/ /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get dist-upgrade This costs some machine time, yeah, but to solve that "fallout" costs human time which is in most cases far more expensive. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130820145339.ga2...@angband.pl