Bug#588026: Importance of partial upgrades

[Helge Kreutzmann]

severity 588026 serious
thanks

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 05:46:21PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> Partial upgrades from one stable release to another are expected to
> work, unless there's a really good reason (of the kind which one would
> most likely expect to be mentioned somewhere prominent such as in the
> Release Notes).
> 
> If installing the squeeze version of lvm2 on a lenny system leaves the
> system in an unbootable state then that would be an RC bug.

Based on this I raise the severity. This could be argured, of course,
since technically I could boot but looking but
a) the upgrade was stuck and
b) the failed update (in the boot loader!) is really scarry since the
   error message is so unclear that I really expected the boot to
   fail. I only found out that it worked because I was travelling
   (offline) and had to shut down the machine due to low battery.

Greetings

          Helge
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