online article: "Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks"

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 05:21:27PM +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> That is certainly not a user error - upgrade paths shouldn't depend on
> having ubuntu-desktop installed. Upgrades should work nicely without the
> meta-package.

It is unlikely to ever be practical to guarantee this for incremental or
manual upgrades; the search space is too large and the information available
too limited.

The appropriate solution is to provide an upgrade path from one release to
the next which does the right thing, and we do that, starting with
Breezy->Dapper.

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 - mdz