Re: Debian 4.0 Upgrade Path

[Thiemo Nagel]

Dear Eduardo,

Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
On Qui, 21 Jan 2010, Thiemo Nagel wrote:
having read your email concerning the termination of etch security 
support, I'm looking for an upgrade path for our installation of ~100 
machines.

Is it planned to start squeeze security support in time to allow a 
direct 4.0 --> 6.0 upgrade?

I doubt so, since squeeze is still a relatively long way from being 
released. Certainly not in the next month.

The last time I checked, the freeze was scheduled for March.  If I'm not 
mistaken, usually security support starts some time before the final 
release.  So it's a rather narrow gap to be bridged (at least in my 
imagination).

And I believe a direct upgrade 4.0 -> 6.0 is not supported by Debian, 
major releases cannot be skipped.

I'm not talking of an upgrade in the sense of 'apt-get dist-upgrade', 
we'll be doing fresh installations with the new version.  However, it 
would save both administrators and users a huge amount of work, if we 
could deploy squeeze now (one transition) instead of deploying lenny now 
and squeeze a year from now (two transitions).

Cheers!

Thiemo
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