Re: Bug#489132: Still relevant?

2008-09-19 Thread Wolf Wiegand
Hi,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:

 On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
  Is it still correct that dpkg needs to be upgraded first before doing a
  dist-upgrade from Etch?  With perl-base 5.10.0-14 pre-depending on a
  fixed version of dpkg, that should not be the case anymore, AFAICS.
 
 Indeed.
 
 But we should still recommend an upgrade of apt/aptitude first.

I cannot tell whether this is a related issue, but I tested an upgrade a
couple of days ago. A clean upgrade was not possible without upgrading
apt beforehand. See #498800 for details.


Cheers,

Wolf
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Re: Bug#489132: Still relevant?

2008-09-18 Thread Raphael Hertzog
retitle 489132 upgrade apt/aptitude first
thanks

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Sven Joachim wrote:
 Is it still correct that dpkg needs to be upgraded first before doing a
 dist-upgrade from Etch?  With perl-base 5.10.0-14 pre-depending on a
 fixed version of dpkg, that should not be the case anymore, AFAICS.

Indeed.

But we should still recommend an upgrade of apt/aptitude first.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog

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http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/


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