In upgrade41.html, we introduced a "warning" section about packages
with unusually traumatic upgrades. In the 4.0 -> 4.1 upgrade,
(and again for 4.3 -> 4.4) postgresql required a database dump
before the upgrade and a restore afterwards, if one neglected to
do this, they would be hurting after installing the new version.
It's upgrade46.html time, and I need to know if there are any
packages worthy of a upgrade warnings for 4.5 -> 4.6
The criteria I would like to use is this:
1) The upgrade is more traumatic than typical (for example,
requiring PRE-upgrade actions)
2) the package is in moderately wide-spread use.
For example, 4.3->4.4, the advisories were these:
* ejabberd: When upgrading ejabberd from 1.x to 2.x you will need
to dump and restore database as described at
http://www.ejabberd.im/migrate-host.
* Postgresql: you must dump your database before upgrade and
restore it after.
nice, neat, one-line.
Please submit any suggestions for these to me. Providing the nice,
neat, one-line summary would be great (I'm NOT good at nice, neat, OR
one-line!), and if you feel it needed, justify it to me. :)
Oh, and there IS an upgrade47.html out there, waiting to be populated,
too.
Nick.
(and if this message looks familiar, I'm a believer in e-mail recylcing)
