[Pkg-mailman-hackers] Removing pre-sarge upgrading code

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Sun Aug 27 16:41:43 UTC 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 04:54:51PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:

> The packaging scripts contain quite a lot of code that serves to
> upgrade from pre-sarge versions. I'm planning to remove it all,
> since we only support upgrades from sarge to etch and not from woody
> or potato to etch. I'd like to have some comments though, preferedly
> from the people that added the code.

If we remove the woody upgrade code, it means that no Debian stable
version will be able to cleanly upgrade from woody. Just mentioning;
one can indeed with a point argue that providing a clean upgrade from
woody now is too late anyway.

-- 
Lionel



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