Quoting Joe ([email protected]): > I don't think your situation will get any better, the number of > upgrades needed will just increase. I don't think aptitude will ever > manage an upgrade of this size, and I don't think apt-get is clever > enough to do it cleanly. > > There was some discussion after the last release, as to whether people > using testing should continue to track testing, or stay with jessie > until testing had 'settled down a bit'. There was an [obviously > correct] opinion that testing would change dramatically quite quickly, > and [I think an incorrect opinion] that this large change could be > avoided by waiting. I was of the opinion that the longer the change was > delayed, the greater the upheaval when it happened. Testing would draw > further and further away from jessie, it would never get closer. I think > your situation demonstrates the disadvantage of waiting.
This may be true for testing/stretch in the short term while the packages have inconsistencies between suitable versions to install with each other. In the long term, however, apt-get's job will once again get easier as the inconsistencies are ironed out. So waiting could still be a sensible option at this time. Some of us have yet to finish sorting out jessie (in my case, as a production system, not as an upgrade target). Cheers, David.
