A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Mario Vukelic]

On Sun, 2009-03-08 at 16:07 +0000, David Gerard wrote:
> Providing a mechanism in the interface ("would you like to upgrade?")
> and then noting in the fine print "this doesn't actually work."

As has been noted by Toby, there is a confusion of terms. What is not
supported (though can be made to work by someone well-versed in the APT
tools) is "dist-upgrade", as in "apt-get dist-upgrade".

The supported upgrade path is through Update Manager in the GUI or
do-release-upgrade on the command line (primarily for Ubuntu Server),
and this should indeed work -- failures with these tools are indeed
bugs. However, the name of this is not "dist-upgrade" for obvious danger
of confusion with the older "apt-get dist-upgrade".