Package: release-notes Severity: wishlist In the upgrade docs:
http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-preparations "The distribution upgrade should be done either locally from a textmode virtual console (or a directly connected serial terminal), or remotely via an ssh link." While the first time I did a jessie upgrade, my X session exploded and I was left with a half-upgraded system (recovered fine, however), now I just upgraded a fairly regular laptop to the latest jessie release, through a full gnome session, without any interruption or issues. So I think that wording could be changed to a recommendation. It will make upgrading Debian more accessible to users less familiar with the "textmode virtual consoles" (which is, I suspect, a surprisingly large proportion). :) Thanks! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.3 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
