Re: which upgrade path from woody?

[John Summerfield]

Bill Moseley wrote:
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 10:34:26PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
 

Hendrik Boom wrote:
   

I'm about to upgrade my woody system to eather testing or unstable
(probably unstable, because I gather that temporarily broken package
dependencies don'e cause as much mass deletion and restoration of
entire suites of packages there)  Please correct me if I am wrong on
any of these details.

     

If you use Sid, you _will_ have a broken system from time to time.
On Sarge, I've merely had the occasional broken package.
   

I have had the other experience.  I've had less problems running Sid
than Testing.  But that might just due to the (random) times I decided
to do my dist-upgrades.
 

New versions og g++, for example, break existing g++ applications until 
they're rebuilt. I recall two such breakages quite recently, one for gcc 
and one for libc.

Right now there's a thread regarding broken update procedures in sid. I 
don't know how bad it is, I've not been following the thread,

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