[ubuntu-in] Is it OK to jump updates?

[Onkar Shinde]

On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Narendra Diwate
<narendra.diwate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Is it OK to skip/jump updates?
>
> What I mean is if i have a package version 1 and a few days later version 2
> is available, can i skip it and update directly when version 3 or 4 is
> available? For packages that have many dependencies will this have a
> possibility of breakage or dependency issues?

Yes. It is perfectly fine. Whatever update was done in version 2 is
going to stay in 3 and 4 as well. Also updates do not usually affect
the other packages depending on the one being updated. If it does
indeed affect other packages, then such packages are updated as well.
You should check the changelog to decide if an update is worth your
bandwidth or not, specifically when package in question is a big one
like OO.o or Firefox.
Of course you should not ideally skip security updates. And in recent
versions of Ubuntu you get popup every day if you have pending
security updates.


Onkar