[nzlug] Dumb question

[Martin Bähr]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:59:09AM +1200, Craig Box wrote:
> As for Nevyn's other question, if you're careful, you can crossgrade Debian
> to Ubuntu.  The careful part is you need to make sure you get the newer
> Ubuntu versions of everything - Sarge to Dapper is possible, for example,

i managed to crossupgrade to hoary from whatever was stable debian at
the time.

> but Etch (now) to Dapper (June 2006) won't work unless you tell it to
> reinstall everything.

not reinstall but downgrade. is also possible but tricker.
beware of packages that are left over because they have no equivalent in
the other distribution. i think apt-show-versions can be helpful to find
those.

greetings, martin.
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