Am Samstag, 1. September 2018 schrieb Simon Hobson:
> Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
>
> > Install fresh, copy your data, and you're 90% done. There will be a few special configs you'll need to edit in the new system, based on the old.
>
> There is something to be said for that. One of the issues I've had with a number of upgrades is the config changes - you get loads of "your config has been edited, what do you want to do" dialogs for all those packages where you edit the one config file. And then there are all the changes, especially if you were running some new hand installed package and it's now available as a distro native installer package.
>
> Trouble is, unless you do both then you don't know which is more work - updating your existing config, or recreating it :-/

And when you go wheezy->jessie->ascii, you'll end up with a lot of "undead" packages without upgrade candidate or things you put on hold ages ago:

$ apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match '\(uptodate\|not installed\|newer than version in archive\)'
$ apt-show-versions |grep --invert-match 'No available version'

And lots of configs of those:

$ dpkg -l|grep ^rc

You will most likely want purge all of them ... and probably shoot yourself in the foot on the way by removing :amd64 instead of the :i386 version, so keep your eyes open ;)

Nik


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