Upgrade across releases

[Amit Gholap]

Hello All

It is known that Lite does not upgrade from 3.x to 4 and so on.
To have a better understanding on why so many distros cannot upgrade across major versions, could Lite devs or someone explain why such release upgrades are difficult or impossible?

Thx
-A

[Valtam]

Quite simply put for Ubuntu based distros, sudo do-release-upgrade has a high failure rate and is an extremely complex process that requires specific intervention for each pc. I doubt there's a dev in existence who would dare take on the task of writing GUI software for this process. You could pay me $10k and I still wouldn't do it.

[kpanic]

Quite simply put for Ubuntu based distros, sudo do-release-upgrade has a high failure rate and is an extremely complex process that requires specific intervention for each pc. I doubt there's a dev in existence who would dare take on the task of writing GUI software for this process. You could pay me $10k and I still wouldn't do it.

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[Valtam]

You're welcome to say what you think, that is indeed my style, but it should be balanced with politeness. Welcome back

[Amit Gholap]

Thx very much for the infos.
Since Ubuntu itself supports upgrades across releases or LTS, I was hoping that even Ubuntu derivatives like LL will support it. I guess I dont have enough knowledge about Linux to understand why Ubuntu can, but Ubuntu derivatives cannot.

Rgds,
Amit