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Re: Wheezy to Stretch

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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

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Wheezy to Stretch "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleenesj@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> - 2018-02-21 19:00 +0100
  Re: Wheezy to Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-21 19:20 +0100
    Re: Wheezy to Stretch Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-02-21 19:40 +0100
  Re: Wheezy to Stretch Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-02-21 19:50 +0100
    Re: Wheezy to Stretch deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 20:20 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-02-21 20:30 +0100
        Re: Wheezy to Stretch deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 21:20 +0100
    Re: Wheezy to Stretch john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-02-21 20:20 +0100
    Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 21:50 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-02-21 22:00 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-02-22 04:10 +0100
        Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 08:10 +0100
          Re: Wheezy to Stretch rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-02-22 14:10 +0100
          Re: Wheezy to Stretch Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2018-02-22 15:00 +0100
            Re: Wheezy to Stretch deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 18:40 +0100
              RE: Wheezy to Stretch "Kleene, Steven (kleenesj)" <kleenesj@UCMAIL.UC.EDU> - 2018-02-22 18:50 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 11:30 +0100
  Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 19:50 +0100
    Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 22:00 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-21 22:10 +0100
        Re: Wheezy to Stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-02-21 22:40 +0100
          Re: Wheezy to Stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-21 23:00 +0100
            Re: Wheezy to Stretch Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2018-02-21 23:20 +0100
              Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 01:00 +0100
        Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 22:40 +0100
      Re: Wheezy to Stretch deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 22:40 +0100
        Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-21 22:50 +0100
          Re: Wheezy to Stretch Karol Augustin <karol@augustin.pl> - 2018-02-21 23:20 +0100
            Re: Wheezy to Stretch Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 01:20 +0100
          Re: Wheezy to Stretch deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 08:20 +0100
            Re: Wheezy to Stretch Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-02-22 11:20 +0100
  Re: Wheezy to Stretch Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2018-02-22 03:50 +0100

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