Hi,

Simon McVittie:
> Does Ubuntu support upgrading directly from old-old-LTS to
> current-LTS, e.g. from hardy to precise or from lucid to trusty?

Not that I know of, no.

> Ubuntu's Wikipedia page doesn't seem to think so. A direct upgrade
> from squeeze to jessie would be of a similar magnitude.
> 
Well, yes, except that I continue to hope that with a LTS release in our
archive the non-LTS releases would appear somewhat more often.

If not, I'd consider the exercise to be pointless, to be frank.

> (With upstream hat on, my co-maintainers already think I'm going a bit
> far by doing security releases for 2 year old D-Bus and Telepathy code
> to support Debian stable, and I don't intend to extend that to a
> longer-lived oldstable.)
> 
'xactly.
-- 
-- Matthias Urlichs

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