Jaunty still in Beta?

[H.S.]

H.S. wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>>>> In the general sense, installs from RC can be safely upgraded to the
>>>> released version. This is _not_ true of alphas and betas, no matter
>>>> what the release notes or rumour says.
>>>>
>>> No, in general this is not true.
>>>
>>> The alphas and betas are just a release in development. In other words,
>>> the updates are going to be more frequent and bugs are quite likely and
>>> stability is an issue. But as betas approach, all these gradually
>>> subside. Finally, when a release is 'released', the software is
>>> considered stable enough or satisfactorily stable so as to be released.
>>>
>>> During all this, no one ever changes his apt sources list. So one is
>>> effectively tracking a release in its evolution.
>>>
>>> This has always been the case, even in Debian. Debian has Testing and
>>> Unstable versions. These are constantly being updated.
>>>
>>> So, no, alphas, betas and releases are just the same thing, but at
>>> different development stages. The only problem during updates could be
>>> that alphas are more prone to bugs. If latter is what you meant, then
>>> please note that release notes always warn about the stability of alphas
>>> and betas.
>>>
>> There are often critical configuration changes going from alpha to
>> beta or beta to RC. That is not typical of the RC to release
>> transition. Go parse the release notes for specifics.
>>
> 
> Conf changes are dealt with during updates. The update manager *should*
> be telling the user about the changes and asking for suggestion what to
> do with them (install new version, see diffs, leave them alone, etc.).
> For a taste, try aptitude (command line) for an update which involves
> conf changes. This happens all the time in Debain Testing and more
> frequently in Debain Unstable. Aptitude is designed to deal with these
> things gracefully. In your case, if the GUI update manager does not deal
> with these gracefully, then the GUI manager is broken in some way.
> Please file a bug.

Correction: it does ask the user, but it asks in the terminal window in
the lower half of the GUI. I saw this a few weeks on a Hardy machine
where, IIRC, the ntp.conf had a new update. And we are talking about an
LTS release here!




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