Dale Scheetz wrote: > In both cases 1 and 3 at least the glibc packages need to be upgraded by > hand. > > This should be advertised heavily.
No. We should not break the system in this way. We should support the already large installed base we have for hamm, and not make them do things by hand. The solution is simple: use an epoch. What's wrong with that? > I hope that everyone working on testing and those other folks brave enough > to work with a pre-release version, will be capable of managing this > transition. Cases 1 and 2 will never notice the difference. I'm sure everyone is capable. But we have mechanisms to works around this, and any version of debian should be cleanly upgradable to any other, even intermediate versions. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]