On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:40:51PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > I know what I'm talking about
Same here. > and if I can do it anybody can do it, There is a big difference between *can* and *should*. > Debian > has given us all the tools we need to upgrade any stable release to current > stable release or higher for that matter, thank about it. >From the release notes [0]: Direct upgrades from Debian releases older than 8 (jessie) are not supported. Please follow the instructions in the Release Notes for Debian 8 to upgrade to 8 first. > Just start with a > simple upgrade first before tackling the other things, it's not rocket > science after all. > Correct. It is not rocket science. However, the suggestion you made is far more likely to encounter problems, perhaps even very difficult to recover problems, than the supported and *tested* upgrade path. There are so many packages in Debian that you have no way of being certain that any given upgrade will work without issues. I have even done in place 32-bit -> 64-bit migrations. However, I would not recommend that anyone try that without understanding the potential risks. Your recommendation had a conspicuous lack of warnings concerning the potential provblems associated with it. Regards, -Roberto [0] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#system-status -- Roberto C. Sánchez
