Merchant software

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:14:45AM -0500, Dan Thomson wrote:
>I think that when Debian was updated to etch, they started encouraging
>people to explicilty say "sarge", "etch", "lenny" etc. since that
>would eliminate potential confusion when "testing" becomes "stable"
>and "stable" becomes "oldstable".
>
>That makes more sense to me. If you upgrade to the next dist, you're
>going to want to explicitly say so by updating your sources IMO. The
>idea of auto dist-upgrade gives me the willies :)

I use Debian expressly because apt dist-upgrade works so well.  I have
been using it on one machine since woody, and another since lenny.  When
Debian moved from XFree86 or Xorg, it just worked, and similarly, my
kernel has updated repeatedly with nothing more than a reboot.
-- 

yours,

William

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