Announcing Beta release of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

[Antony Gelberg]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> It is possible to upgrade manually, but the DapperUpgrades method is
> strongly recommended.  A simple dist-upgrade attempts to resolve the entire
> upgrade based solely on the package metadata, while the upgrade tool is more
> sophisticated and has explicit logic supplied by the development team to
> provide a smooth upgrade.
> 

Can you point me to more info on this?  I don't like the sound of it. 
I'm used to the distro being nothing more than the sum of its packages, 
hence the metadata being enough.  What "explicit logic" is required over 
and above package metadata?  This is not good news for those of us who 
want to upgrade machines without a GUI tool.