Did we really release 8.04?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday 07 July 2008 14:07, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Mathias Gug <mathiaz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:57:26PM -0400, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> >> On Mon, 07 Jul 2008, Emmet Hikory wrote:
> >> >     This isn't a CLI vs. GUI issue, it's that some upgrade cases don't
> >> > work well for special reasons.  Some of these are difficult to encode
> >> > in terms of provides, conflicts, and replaces, and some are even
> >> > impossible.  Upgrade Manager (which also has a cli client) has
> >> > information about these special cases that allow the upgrade to
> >> > continue.
> >>
> >> update-manager has a cli client? Never heard of it.  How do you call it?
> >
> > As outlined on "Upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS" page in the "Network
> > upgrade for Ubuntu servers (recommended)" section [1]:
>
> Hm, I don't know why that's just the server section.  Stability issues
> with the GUI one crashing all the time affect desktop users, and then
> we're left trying to figure out how to recover from a half-upgraded
> system.
>

Because a volunteer from the server team took the trouble to put it there.  
It's certainly not a secret.

Scott K