18 Jan
2012
18 Jan
'12
10:55 p.m.
John Lewis said:
As a long time Debian user I agree that upgrading
Debian is normally
straightforward but I wouldn't dream of trying to go straight from
etch > squeeze in one step, it needs to be done in stages as Andy says.
I think it would be brave to do a two dist-upgrades without checking
it's booting and working after the first. Things like the syntax of
configuration files change too often (the big one for me in upgrading
from Sarge was Postfix) and you can end up wondering which upgrade
broke things.
From what I've read Ubuntu seems to need
re-installing in order to
upgrade between versions safely.
On the desktop (netbook, anyway) it 'usually' works without
re-installing, but 'usually' isn't really good enough.
Ian