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Do not advise to use aptitude update since it is broken in woody



Dear Debian-Doc list,

The release notes advise to use 'aptitude update' to update the
list of packages. However woody aptitude has a bug that will cause
aptitude update to fail if the user have installed at least one package
with aptitude, see bug #309357. The work around is to use apt-get update
instead.

I would suggest the release notes to be changed to 

From
   First aptitude needs to fetch a list of new and updated packages for
   the new release. This is done by executing:

       aptitude update

to
   First apt needs to fetch a list of new and updated packages for the
   new release. This is done by executing:

       apt-get update

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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