Backward Compatability?

[Andrew Hunter]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 19:18, Alfred wrote:
> Hi: I have a number of DVDs of all the software on LTS 6.06-1
> Repositories. Is this software backwards compatible with Ubuntu 5.10?
> Or do I need to download software made for 5.10, separately. I have a
> very slow Internet Connection. It takes hours just to download one
> program, of moderate size.
>
> Alfred!

If you have backups of the dapper repos, why not upgrade the 5.10 boxes to 
6.06?