Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Non-the-less, it's not something that many people will have attempted, > and there are quite likely to be things that might slip through the net. > Not just things within the Debian ecosystem: a machine running Lenny was > presumably installed in or around 2009, so there's nearly 9 years worth > of local sysadmin changes that might have been made. > >> I had few problems from wheezy to lenny, > > That would be downgrading by two releases. That's bound to be > troublesome. > >>but almost no problem from lenny to stretch. > > That's the path that OP's friend would be attempting (as lenny is > currently oldoldoldoldstable). I'm glad it worked for you, but I would > still not recommend it to anyone else.
Aah sorry, I moved from lenny to squeeze then I moved partially to wheezy last year before squeeze got obsolated and this year I moved to stretch in one day, doing wheezy -> jessie and jessie -> stretch. So the problem was squeeze -> wheezy regards
