[Fwd: Re: Two rather negative articles about Ubuntu]

[Matthew East]

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Hi,

* Matt Zimmerman:
> On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:02:27PM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Just because the upgrade instructions say to do that doesn't make it right. 
>> It's a #$%^&UIP{ stupid way to perform an upgrade.
> 
> If you prefer to perform upgrades using apt-get rather than the more
> sophisticated upgrade tool, then this is your best chance to have a
> successful upgrade and a working system at the end of it.  It is as simple
> as that.

I don't think it is that simple. Users have been used to doing it this
way, and as a result I think the obligation was on us to (a) support it,
or (b) make much more of an effort to publicise the change in functionality.

The number of users who have struggled with this problem has been
significant enough to indicate that if (b) was the route that was taken,
it wasn't done well enough. I myself was certainly under the impression
that the developers were continuing to focus on supporting upgrade paths
without relying on meta packages... It's in the release notes, and the
wiki page which deals with upgrading, but it didn't get through.

Matt
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