Le jeudi, 22 novembre 2018, 14.56:10 h CET Ian Jackson a écrit : > There is tradeoff here between risk of breakage, and reduction of > future work (as most clearly explained by Russ). The argument that is > being made is that the risk is low because of a lack of reports of > breakage. > > Others have observed that systems most likely to experience trouble > will not have been upgraded. For example, chiark was first installed > with Debian 0.93R5 in 1993. Obviously I haven't usrmerged it. No-one > sensible in my position would do so.
Of course you do have backups. For the sake of the argument, would you consider trying an install of usrmerge on a restored backup VM somewhere? Maybe I'm overlooking something, but it seems that installing usrmerge on a production system is going to be a _much_ less demanding task proceeding with a stable upgrade. Cheers, OdyX