LTS to LTS upgrade path

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday 14 September 2007 22:43, Onno Benschop wrote:

> Now I understand that resources are limited and that we're a little way
> away from needing this functionality, but if I look back at the gap
> between Edgy and Feisty, it was all over way too soon, so I suspect that
> it would be useful to start some discussion about this.
>
> I'm happy to stick up my hand to help.

A good start would be someone fixing this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/upstart/+bug/104038

Upgrade to feisty causes loss of TTYs due to incorrect file mangling

I recently did an experimental Dapper --> Gutsy upgrade with this sort of 
question in mind.  It was painful, but except for this TTY problem I ended up 
with a functional system.

Scott K