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Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie)

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On 09/20/17 08:32, jpff wrote:
> I seem to need to upgrade to Debian stretch to install my printer as
> it needs hplip 3.16.11, ad I was running wheezy. ...

While some people succeed at major version upgrades, the few times I 
have attempted it resulted in breakage, frustration, and lots of wasted 
time and energy.


Now I backup my configuration settings, remove the old system drive, 
take an image of the old system drive, install a new/ zeroed/ secure 
erased system drive, do a fresh install, migrate my configuration 
settings, and test each subsystem as I go.  If everything works, I'm 
done.  If not, I lower my expectations, find another distribution, 
and/or build another computer, and restart from "do a fresh install".


I have reached two conclusions:

1.  Upgrading software is the act of replacing an existing, 
partially-known set of bugs with a another set of bugs -- some old, some 
new, some known, some unknown.

2.  Software distributors never fix 100% of their bugs -- they make a 
new release, abandon the old release, and declare victory.


David

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Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie) jpff <jpff@codemist.co.uk> - 2017-09-20 17:50 +0200
  Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie) David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2017-09-21 06:20 +0200
  Re: Upgrade problems (wheezy->jessie) deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-09-21 21:20 +0200

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