On Wed 18 Nov 2020 at 13:03:13 (-0500), Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:18:33PM -0500, Felix Miata wrote: > > David Wright composed on 2020-11-18 09:46 (UTC-0600): > > > > > IIRC the Release Notes usually > > > recommend upgrading the kernel (its minor version upgrade) early > > > in the distribution upgrade process. > > I don't recall ever seeing that. Curious. > > > > Even though all my own installations are in multiboot, for Fedora, Mageia > > and > > openSUSE, I prevent all automatic kernel upgrades, regardless whether major > > or > > minor, dist-upgrade or otherwise. I can't recall any instance of a > > dist-upgrade > > failing in any fashion because a newer kernel hadn't been installed. > > There are definitely cases which will fail, but it's been a long time > since that happened in debian--at least if you follow the guideline to > never skip releases when upgrading.
A case in point was lenny → squeeze: squeeze's udev was incompatible with lenny's kernel (§4.4.5 squeeze's Release Notes). More generally, the end of §4.6.1 in several generations of Release Notes, it appears. Cheers, David.
