Control: severity -1 grave You are wrong. Debian is very good about supporting an indefinite upgrade path. It is *the* useful feature of Debian. I have been using Debian since 0.93rc6 and I have only re-installed from scratch once in that entire time period. I have this debate with about one package maintainer per year, and I always win because "thou shalt not wedge apt" is a core Debian community value!
Learn how to use the dependency system correctly. Then you will be in a position of superiority and you can lecture me about bug tracking etiquette. If you look at the history of this bug, internal Debian project members were just as irate as I am at the lack of compatibility and raised the severity in the same manner, but then they were talked down as part of a misguided rush to release. The release cycle is not the dominant goal of Debian maintenance! On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 11:40:52PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Fact is, that Debian only supports upgrades from one release to another. > If you are using a dpkg version from pre-wheezy, you're on your own. > We can be nice and add an explicit versioned dependency, but mixing > versions like this is a/ not supported b/ not a good idea. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
