Upgrading to Edgy Eft

[Derek Broughton]

Julio Biason wrote:

> On 6/27/06, Chris Neary <hello at poetofcode.org> wrote:
>> I have a question regarding upgrading to Edgy Eft, and that question is
>> this: Why? There have been a few posts to the list asking for help with
>> getting certain things (sometimes the most fundamental things) working or
>> behaving, yet the 'bleeding edge' release of Ubuntu is barely a month
>> old! Do you want to upgrade to Edgy right _now_, and if so, why?

Because I'm a glutton for punishment :-)  Edgy is supposed to be in
production in just FOUR months.  I intend to be using it way before that.

> Testing. I did the upgrande (and downgraded back to Dapper) just
> because I wanted to see if there was anything worth checking.
> Currently Edgy is just a single update to Dapper and not worth the
> effort. 

It was a lot more than that for me.  I just checked - 205 packages.  When I
tried the edgy install last week, libc6 was a showstopper.

> But I got several errors on boot-up and I'll report them back. 
> This will make sure developers are aware of the current state and can
> fix it earlier, preventing big headaches in the future.
> 
>> I'm not ranting, I'm just curious as to why people are upgrading already.

I'm curious as to why people seem to get _upset_ that we try this?  If Edgy
is an alpha-test environment, there should be password restricted access to
the archive.

When the Edgy libc6 upgrade broke my locales, I googled for the answer and
found (a) it was known, so there wasn't much point reporting it, and (b)
those who _asked_ about the problem were abused for trying the upgrade so
early.  One poster on the Ubuntu forums actually seemed to think that the
poster with the problem should just have to live with it for being so
stupid.  I ran Dapper from about day 3 of its existence (but it didn't
begin with a significant libc6 bug).  I'm sure I'll be using Edgy within a
few weeks.  Life's no fun if I'm not fixing things!

>> Surely if they're testing Edgy, they should be reporting problems to
>> ubuntu-dev. 

Surely if they're testing Edgy they should be reporting problems to
Launchpad, where every other bug is reported?  I won't be reporting
anything to ubuntu-dev.

>> Is it just blind playing-with-the-system-to-see-if-it-breaks-ism?
> 
> Kinda. :)

Exactly :-)  If it ain't broke - break it.
-- 
derek