<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/24/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Colin Watson</b> <<a href="mailto:cjwatson@ubuntu.com">cjwatson@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>that apt may not be able to resolve easily, conflicts in configuration<br>files, and probably more than the usual share of other bugs. It would be<br>interesting for somebody with lots of free time to experiment with this
<br>and let us know how bad it is! Somebody tested this with upgrades of<br>very old Debian systems a while back, but I can't find the link at the<br>moment.<br><br></blockquote></div><br>I have dist-upgraded from Debian Woody to Hoary with very few problems. I have dist-upgraded from Warty to breezy with only a few hassles (the need to hit enter again and again during the configuration of every single xorg package, for example.)
<br><br>There used to be a wikipage detailing the pitfalls, but I can't seem to find it at the moment.<br>