Re: How come dist-upgrade needed in lenny?

2011-04-03 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 20:56:51 +, Liam O'Toole wrote:

 On 2011-04-02, Tapio Lehtonen tapio.lehto...@dnainternet.net wrote:
 Lenny can not install bind9 update in the usual upgrade way, because
 this upgrade needs two package removals and two new packages to be
 installed. I think this should be mentioned in the security note of
 this bind9 upgrade or otherwise inform users so they do not waste time
 figuring out what is happening and how to get the upgrade installed.
 
 I've seen such warnings in the past, on the rare occasions when security
 updates required a full-upgrade or dist-upgrade.

Me too. 

And the required commands to perform the update are usually noted on the 
same e-mail received from debian-security-announce mailing list.

Greetings,

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Re: How come dist-upgrade needed in lenny?

2011-04-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-04-02, Tapio Lehtonen tapio.lehto...@dnainternet.net wrote:
 Lenny can not install bind9 update in the usual upgrade way, because 
 this upgrade needs two package removals and two new packages to be 
 installed. I think this should be mentioned in the security note of this 
 bind9 upgrade or otherwise inform users so they do not waste time 
 figuring out what is happening and how to get the upgrade installed.

I've seen such warnings in the past, on the rare occasions when security
updates required a full-upgrade or dist-upgrade.

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Liam O'Toole
Cork, Ireland


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