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

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Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> 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.
> 

I'm too lazy to find a reference, but I believe that was part of the LTS 
  'manifesto' from the start.  Supposedly, we will be able (and 
supported)  to upgrade directly from one LTS version to the next LTS 
version.