Problem during upgrade from 08.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS

[Colin Law]

On 17 January 2011 09:42, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 January 2011 22:20, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd be interested to know what's special about an LTS to LTS upgrade.
>>> There's no reason why an 8.04 to 10.04 upgrade'd be successful but an
>>> 8.10 to 10.10 upgrade wouldn't be - other than marketing. If done
>>> carefully, both these upgrades should be possible given that it's
>>> possible (and possibly encouraged) to upgrade from one Debian version
>>> to another when they're published 2-3 years apart.
>>
>> The difference is that the upgrade software is designed to cope with
>> LTS to LTS but otherwise only one release at a time.  This is so that
>> a user can specifically choose to use only LTS versions.
>
> The upgrade tool's set up to allow you to go from 8.04 to 10.04 and
> not from 8.10 to 10.10 but there's no technical reason why an upgrade
> from 8.10 to 10.10 wouldn't be successful when an upgrade from 8.04 to
> 10.04 would be.

There is a technical reason, which is that the tool has not been setup
to cope with 8.10 to 10.10.  The work has not been done to allow that.
 If you meant that there is no technical reason why the tool *could*
have been setup to cope with it then you are likely correct, but
presumably it was judged that the effort in doing this was not
worthwhile.

Colin
Do you mean 'there is no techn