Problem during upgrade from 08.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 16 January 2011 22:20, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'd be interested to know what's special about an LTS to LTS upgrade.
> There's no reason why an 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade'd be successful but an
> 8.10 to 10.10 upgrade wouldn't be - other than marketing. If done
> carefully, both these upgrades should be possible given that it's
> possible (and possibly encouraged) to upgrade from one Debian version
> to another when they're published 2-3 years apart.

The difference is that the upgrade software is designed to cope with
LTS to LTS but otherwise only one release at a time.  This is so that
a user can specifically choose to use only LTS versions.

Colin