A couple of rants about Launchpad

[Christopher Chan]

> In almost all cases, upgrade problems that manifest using apt-get are
> entirely fixable with correct packaging. There are a small number of
> cases where this is not the case, and those require workarounds in
> update-manager. Nevertheless, if we simply throw up our hands and say
> that apt-get is not supported, then we ignore the fact that the correct
> way to fix most upgrade problems will deal with apt-get as well; working
> around *everything* in update-manager would lead to a significantly more
> fragile system, as well as a pretty exhausted update-manager maintainer!
>   
Ah, so the thing about 'apt-get dist-upgrade' not being supported is due 
to weirdo packages.


Okay, things make sense then. Those wierdo packages are not supported by 
Canonical I take it?