about new release which will be on 10th Oct

[Tom H]

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Mon, October 4, 2010 16:21, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
>> On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:17 +0200, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>>>
>>> Please do not recommend manual edits to sources.list!!!
>>> The Ubuntu upgrade process does a bit more than just "the Debian way".
>>> do-release-upgrade will work just fine.
>>
>> Are you trying to troll me? Did you (obviously) not read /all/ of what I
>> posted? I mean seriously.  Next time please read the entire post instead
>> of just selective reading. Quote from my post: "It's better on Ubuntu to
>> use do-release-upgrade..." Contextual reading usually helps too, for
>> example reading what I replied to so you can see why I replied in such a
>> fashion.
>
> I am not trying to troll you. The internet never forgets. If someone else
> reads your post there is a chance that they will just do it The Debian
> Way, and The Debian Way != The Ubuntu Way.

You're fooling yourself when you say "The Debian Way != The Ubuntu
Way". The Ubuntu Way is just some python scripts that simplify the
task but it is the Debian way simplified for users who don't want to
upgrade manually.

I would add some steps to the procedure that Jordon posted but it is
valid and it works.