Debian Woody -> Ubuntu Dapper?

[Derek Broughton]

Antony Gelberg wrote:

> Busted Monkey wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> As Dapper's more or less a newer version of Debian, would it be
>> possible to simply change your sources.list to point to the Dapper
>> repositories and do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade' from a old Debian Woody
>> installation?
>> 
> 
> Ubuntu is not Debian, and this is unsupported but you might be able to
> do it if you're experienced with dealing with broken packages. 

This "Ubuntu is not Debian" mantra is getting old.

For all the parts that really matter, here, Ubuntu _is_ Debian.  There's no
reason to assume that you would get broken packages _going to breezy_.  All
packages in breezy are supposed to be in a consistent state.  Dapper is
_not_ currently guaranteed to be in a consistent state - but I'd wait until
June for this big an upgrade.  You can't reasonably expect an upgrade from
Woody to Etch to go totally smoothly either - and that's essentially what
you'd face going from Woody to Dapper.

It's unsupported purely because nobody is going to take the time to test
edge cases for the few dozen users who'll need them.  That doesn't mean
it's unreasonable to expect it to work.
-- 
derek