Re: Increasing Debian's Adoptability [Was: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades]

2014-08-28 Thread songbird
Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: songbird wrote: based upon my recent attempt to jump versions it's really much easier to back up your user data and then reinstall. ... if i'd had a more recent media download i would have stopped after about a half hour of attempts and just done that. but it

Increasing Debian's Adoptability [Was: Skipping releases on dist-upgrades]

2014-08-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 7/21/14, songbird songb...@anthive.com wrote: based upon my recent attempt to jump versions it's really much easier to back up your user data and then reinstall. i ran into all sorts of chicken and egg problems and didn't have the right bits locally to make the transition