Paul Wise writes ("Re: Bits from the Security Team"):
> Debian doesn't support skipping releases right now and I expect if we
> support releases for a longer amount of time that won't change.But, in practice, skip upgrades often work anyway. I'd encourage maintainers not to gratuitously break them. For example, aggressively removing compatibility code is a bad idea. (It's bad for our downstreams too). > We don't yet do any testing for upgrades from oldstable2testing etc so > there will probably be some broken things, perhaps we should? That would be nice but I don't have any effort to do it personally... Thanks, Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/21277.50107.155216.490...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
