Noobie question concerning upgrading, was Re: Daper -> Fiesty

[Felipe Figueiredo]

On Monday 24 September 2007 02:21:08 Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2007-09-23 at 20:11 -0600, debian wrote:
> > im wondering why cant you just upgrade straight from say Dapper to 
> > Fiesty and skip edgy? would that cause software conflicts?
> 
> Well, you _can do it, but it is unsupported. I'm sure somebody who knows
> what he/she is doing, and knows about the intricacies of dependencies,
> "apt-get -f", "dpkg --force-things", and who is not lost if X dies or
> booting fails can manage.

I have to disagree. I humbly believe I fit the description, and actually tried 
on a test system, manually with aptitude (both in the CLI, and the TUI) and 
tried correcting every broken dependency I could, only to realise the 
expression "dependency hell" is very apropriate. I'd say it's not only 
unsupported, but in fact unfeasible, but YMMV.

Something will HAVE to change from dapper to the next LTS (the H-something).

regards
FF
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