On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 11:39:37PM +0300, Andrew O. Shadoura wrote:
[...]
> > Well, we only guarantee to support upgrades from stable to the next
> > one. Obviously we will try to not break things in unstable and
> > testing. Though it's not uncommon to make the assumption that users
> > have at least upgraded to stable before doing partial upgrades to
> > unstable/testing versions.
>
> This machine is (obviously) a server. I can't 'just upgrade' it to the
> stable at once, so I do partial upgrades. Dist-upgrade is no go at this
> moment. So in my attempt to get NFS over IPv6 working I got broken NFS
> at all :(
[...]
This is extremely foolish. Partial upgrades are not nearly so well
tested. And while Debian attempts to support partial upgrades from
one stable release to the next (oldstable/stable or
stable/testing/unstable), we explicitly do not support skipping a
release, which is what you are doing by mixing oldstable and unstable.
If you still insist on mixing oldstable and unstable, use a staging
server and pay a consultant to support it.
Ben.
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