A couple of rants about Launchpad

[David Gerard]

2009/3/8 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
> 2009/3/6 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

>> My main point originally, I think, was that dist-upgrade in Ubuntu is
>> way too broken for serious use. I would be horrified at the idea of
>> subjecting a nontechnical user to the things I've had to do to upgrade
>> Ubuntu to a supposedly-stable next version. *It fails more often than
>> not.* And this is not hardware issues, this is the package dance.

> Well, on the 1 hand, AIUI dist-upgrade is /not/ a supported mechanism
> for Ubuntu. Not sure if this also applies to server.


Oh really! In that case it's a bug that it asks you if you want to.


- d.