Shopping didn't make the problem go away, what now?

• We need to keep all the machines in a consistent state, and stay with 2 distros: the current/old one and the new one being pushed

• If flag day there must be, as short a day as possible it will be.

• Service owners should not notice the change, nor should their services go down.

• Rpm vs dpkg should be a big switch for us, the maintainers, but not the server users.

• There are just too many changes, from coreutils to others, for the jump to be small enough to be safe.

• So, we can't have a big jump.