Broken upgrade paths in F7

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 16 May 2007 00:14:06 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> >>> So we need to *always* make sure the upgrade path is proper, not only at
> >>> release time. 
> >>
> >> I think you missed out a part of what I said which was confined to the 
> >> release. The updates system should check for this and refuse to publish 
> >> if a sane update path doesn't exist from a previous release.
> > 
> > That updates for dist N would have to wait for updates for dist N+1 would be
> > unfortunate.
> 
> Maintainers don't necessarily have to wait. They just need to fix it 
> simultaneously when they do an update. That is a bit more work but I 
> don't think that's unfortunate.

I think you have misunderstood the fundamental problem.
For a second try, all context is in above quotes.