On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 08:28:20PM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote: > Nope - the 3.0.x packages just were not ready to go into sid. Any > package where the upgrade strategy is to purge the old and install the > new just doesn't work. 3.1.x will be the first packages where upgrades > from 2.2.x are clean.
Didn't know that. On my machine a simple update from 2.2.2 to 3.0.3 worked fine. :-) > Not without revamping debian/control. I'm also somewhat ... > uncomfortable about putting 3.0.x in. If you know why 3.1 has been held > up, then you'll know that 3.0.x is quite possibly a worse choice than > 2.2.x with regards to that issue. Yes, I have to agree completely with you on this one. Had I known that before I wouldn't have send my original mail. But then no one else did. :-) I didn't mean to critisize anyone. My thinking was just how do we get the best Debian possible. Thanks for your explanations. Michael -- Michael Meskes Michael@Fam-Meskes.De Go SF 49ers! Go Rhein Fire! Use Debian GNU/Linux! Use PostgreSQL!
