Problem during upgrade from 08.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

The upgrade tool's set up to allow you to go from 8.04 to 10.04 and
not from 8.10 to 10.10 but there's no technical reason why an upgrade
from 8.10 to 10.10 wouldn't be successful when an upgrade from 8.04 to
10.04 would be.