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Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages...

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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:42 PM Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
> For a version upgrade, yes, this is Standard Operational Practice. The
> main reasoning is that the upgrade has been tested in that way i.e.
> from the final version of everything in the old distribution, and has
> not been tested from earlier software versions.

OK thanks. I didn't actually know that, but for a long time my
practice (at work)
is complete re-installation rather than upgrade.

> Finally, if upgrading the old system revealed a bug and broke
> something, it will be easier to fix within a familiar system, and a
> good idea to do so before the version upgrade.

Yes, thanks for the "fine print". And don't forget to point out that one might
actually want to try things out on the upgraded system before the
version upgrade.
Not just reboot and resume upgrading. Instead really try-out things
before the upgrade ;-)
As I have experienced first-hand ;-)

> So, no, you don't have to, but yes, it is recommended.
>
> Joe

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Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... sgarrulo <sgarrulo@gmail.com> - 2018-07-10 13:00 +0200
  Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-10 15:10 +0200
    Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... sgarrulo <sgarrulo@gmail.com> - 2018-07-11 18:20 +0200
      Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-07-11 18:50 +0200
  Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-07-10 15:50 +0200
  Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-10 15:50 +0200
  Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2018-07-10 16:20 +0200
    Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-07-10 16:40 +0200
      Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... sgarrulo <sgarrulo@gmail.com> - 2018-07-11 18:30 +0200
    Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... sgarrulo <sgarrulo@gmail.com> - 2018-07-11 18:20 +0200
  Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2018-07-10 22:10 +0200
    Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-07-11 18:20 +0200
      Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-07-11 22:50 +0200
        Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2018-07-12 17:40 +0200
      Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... Jochen Spieker <ml@well-adjusted.de> - 2018-07-12 09:50 +0200
    Re: Buster and apt wanting to remove tons of packages... sgarrulo <sgarrulo@gmail.com> - 2018-07-11 18:30 +0200

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