On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Another question: tempfile(1) says: > | Debian packages using tempfile in maintainer scripts must depend on > | debianutils >= 1.6. > > tempfile 1.6 was released april 1997, i.e. it was probably included in > Bo, or it for sure in Hamm. Shouldn't this sentence be removed, we > don't support upgrades from Bo or Hamm to potato anyway.
What we "support" or we "don't support" regarding upgrades is not very clear yet. It changes from developer to developer. I believe supporting upgrades which skip one release (for example, from oldstable to testing) should be a must, but unfortunately this is not written anywhere.
