docs for dapper upgrade?

[Mathias Gug]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 12:41:17PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008 11:43, Mathias Gug wrote:
> 
> I'd suggest that while dist-upgrade isn't the official way, it generally works 
> and to the extent it doesn't it's because of packaging problems we ought to 
> investigate and try to fix.
>
> do-release-upgrade automates updating sources.list and works through a bunch 
> of special cases AFAICT.  I'd suggest that making dist-upgrade work is a good 
> goal for improving the quality of our packaging.  We probably won't get 
> there, but to the extent we get closer it makes do-release-upgrade's job 
> easier and lower risk.
>

Agreed. Bugs filed because dist-upgrade fails are not marked as Invalid
(because not supported). They should be considered valid bugs.

However the recommended way to upgrade from one release to another is
via do-release-upgrade (which is the method that has been the most
tested).

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Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com