A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Derek Broughton]

David Gerard wrote:

> 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.

What "it"?  I always upgrade with dist-upgrade ("full-upgrade" now), but I'm
also fully aware that it's unsupported.
-- 
derek