I'll second his opinion.  What makes me say that is a dpkg poopstorm after 
attempting to go 8.04->8.10.  Serious unsalvagable mess that needed a 
clean install on a new partition.  Although, that said, i've been 
upgrading since 6.something.


On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> IMO it is always better to do a clean install, and even to wipe your
>> home dir.
>
> Huh?  What makes you say that?
>
>
>        Stefan "who installed Debian once six years ago and has since
>                just kept cloning and upgrading that install, very happy
>                not to have to install ever again"
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