Luis Matos wrote:
Putting etch in sources.list and removing backports always works. (using dist-upgrade)
Only for avoiding confusion, using a single dist-upgrade is not recommended, the etch release notes says:
Because of certain necessary package conflicts between sarge and etch, running aptitude dist-upgrade directly will often remove large numbers of packages that you will want to keep. We therefore recommend a two-part upgrade process, first a minimal upgrade to overcome these conflicts, then a full dist-upgrade.
But see the complete release notes before upgrade: http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes Regards, Andras Galos