Bug#255122: This issue should really be properly fixed

Adrian Bunk Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>, 255122@bugs.debian.org
Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:22:20 +0200


On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:23:50AM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Le samedi 16 octobre 2004 à 20:04 +0200, Adrian Bunk a écrit :
> 
> > In the past, Debian was well-known for smooth upgrades.
> > 
> > I'm quite surprised that such a problem after an upgrade is no longer 
> > considered to be RC.
> 
> What do you call "such problem" ? We had some 2.4->2.6 upgrade issue a
> few months ago but nobody even talked about a woody->sarge upgrade
> broken afaik.
>...

It's an sarge -> sarge upgrade problem (due to the ancient age of Debian 
stable, many people were forced to upgrade to unstable/testing).


Besides this, it might still be a future upgrade problem.
If your HUP already solves this issue, then sorry for the noise.


@James:
Regarding your repeated claim "If it takes a reboot to fix this 
problem, so be it !":

No, I do not expect that any upgrade of Debian requires a reboot (except 
when changing the kernel). Even the Debian 1.3 -> 2.0 upgrade which 
included the libc5 -> libc6 transition worked without a reboot, and I'm 
one of many Debian users who were very surprised if a reboot was 
required.


> Thanks,
> 
> Sebastien Bacher 

cu
Adrian

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