Hi Raf,

Raf Czlonka wrote on Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 04:51:12PM +0000:

> If you take enough care, i.e. make sure you follow current.html[0]
> and the update guide once it becomes available[1] after 5.9 gets
> released,

To go to 5.9-release or 5.9-stable, upgrade59.html is sufficient.
There is no need to bother with current.html.

You always need current.html when building -current from source,
and you often need it when upgrading to a new -current snapshot.

> Obviously, this is *not* a supported upgrade path so, if anything
> goes wrong, you're on your own.

Not true.  Upgrading from X-current to (X+1)-stable is supported.

The amount of confusion here is amazing...  :-(

Yours,
  Ingo

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