Release criterion proposal: upgrade methods

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 15:54 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:34:34PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > "It must be possible to successfully complete an upgrade from a fully
> > updated installation of the previous stable Fedora release with the
> > 'minimal' package set or the package set for a release-blocking desktop,
> > using any officially recommended upgrade mechanism. The upgraded system
> > must meet all release criteria."
> 
> +1
> 
> Is it worth leaving an out for corner cases? What about situations like "oh,
> we don't support a separate /usr anymore"? What level of (possibly-crazy)
> customization is allowed between the initial installation + updates and
> upgrading?

Oh, I think I dropped the word 'clean', which was code for 'we'll reject
all the stuff Matthew just wrote about'. We can add that back in. We've
always interpreted the criterion quite strictly, in practice.
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