Holger Wansing <
hwansing@mailbox.org> writes:
When following that link, the article says to do an “apt update” then
neglects to tell users to perform the upgrade.
Moreover, we have "This should only be necessary in specific situations." in this chapter appendix A [1], while we recommend to upgrade to the latest point
release of stable in 4.2.2 [2].
[1] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ap-old-stuff.en.html#old-upgrade
[2] https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#upgrade-to-latest-point-release
We should remove that phrase completely.
Agree that makes it better - I think that whole chapter [2] could be
improved.
eg Upgrading to a point release should be in the
main body not hidden in an appendix
eg the bit about debug shells always mystifies me - what would i do if
any of the so-called "basic" checks failed? seems like just linking to a
"how to recover a broken system" at the end would be a better approach?
eg the title "prepare for recovery" section is really unfortunate
-- makes it seem like upgrading debian is going to be somehigh-risk
operation that is likely to go wrong!
every time i upgrade i skim this section and find myself suspecting that
some of the information would be better in a different order, but i
never remember to investigate further
A bit of editing would probably make it both shorter and clearer
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