Bug#313448: gnome-system-tools: Creates ximian-setup-tools in binary-arch

[Thomas Hood]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:28 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> It does not require *any* testing to be sure that upgrades from woody to
> etch will *not* work for this package if you remove the dummy package now.


What I meant was: Ensuring that upgrades from woody *do* work *does*
(usually) require testing.

I am speaking of distribution upgrades, not package upgrades.  An
individual maintainer is free to support skip upgrades for his or her
own package; however, the project as a whole advises users to upgrade
whole systems one stable-release-step at a time.

My own view is that if the project isn't supporting skip upgrades of
whole systems then there is little point in supporting skip upgrades of
individual packages either, unless doing so is trivially easy and there
is nothing to be gained through decrufting.  Others may reasonably
differ.

-- 
Thomas Hood <jdthood@aglu.demon.nl>