Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3

[Benjamin Seidenberg <astronut@dlgeek.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:

> Bill Allombert wrote:
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> > > Although sarge's aptitude did..
> > >      
> > I don't know, there were no ways to upgrade to sarge's aptitude.
> >    
>
> The bug log contains a log of astronut doing the upgrade with sarge's
> aptitude..
>
>  
I think the bigger problem is not whether it's possible to do this 
(which it somewhat was) but that it's not intuitive and that it would 
require research for someone to figure out how to do. Perhaps there 
should be some kind of upgrade pseudo-package created to ease the 
transition, that depends on the tools needed? Ie, aptitude install 
etch-upgrade would install the later version of aptitude, etc. needed 
for the upgrade.

Benjamin (astronut)

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