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

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 10:35:45PM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> * 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.

We support it in the same way that we always have, and as Debian always has.
Upgrades using apt-get dist-upgrade have always had the same problems that
they do now.  The only difference is that we have a better alternative which
doesn't have these problems, and we encourage its use.  I don't see where
the rumour has come from that it works any less than it used to.

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 - mdz