Edgy in the news

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:43:41AM +0100, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:12:09AM +1100, Peter Garrett wrote:
> >> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 20:26:09 +0000
> >> "m c" <markc.lists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> 
> >> >  - Could apt be patched to give clearer warnings that dist upgrading
> >> > could break your system, and recommend that the user run upgrade
> >> > manager instead. In fact, just run update-manager when the user tries
> >> > this, whilst siulanousy taking their pony away from them
> >> 
> >> Umm - dist-upgrade is still a useful tool in certain contexts, especially
> >> coupled with aptitude. Simply insisting on the update-manager strikes me as
> >> rather unworkable anyway. Or is there a work-around for people whose X is
> >> broken, or who are upgrading from a system without X or gnome etc ?
> >
> > It's useful for incremental upgrades, but using it for a complex upgrade to
> > an entirely new release of Ubuntu is problematic by design.  It has to
> > "guess" which packages to keep and which to remove, while Update Manager
> > "knows" what's appropriate for the upgrade.
> 
> Are there any plans for a version of Update Manager that doesn't depend
> on X? 

https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/server-upgrade-tool

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 - mdz