On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 23:17 +0100, W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Note, that the release notes still recommend aptitude (which > I never used, so I'm neither pro nor contra), because it was > agreed on for the etch release notes and the bug #411280 is > still open. I would be happy if we (better late than never) > could close it, but because it's now officially LAte, we have > to coordinate such a change with the translators. There was a > lot of discussion about this on the lists, but with no result. > There have been a number of reports that aptitude dist-upgrade would remove random packages (like the X driver you're currently using) on upgrade. I don't think recommending its use in the release notes for etch->lenny is a good idea at all.
(fwiw, 'aptitude dist-upgrade' on my workstation isn't able to find an upgrade path. 'apt-get dist-upgrade' otoh finds one almost immediately which looks reasonable on a quick look) Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
