Re: PROPOSED: new package: xinit
Jules Bean <jules@jellybean.co.uk> immo vero scripsit
> > # apt-get install apt dpkg
> > # apt-get dist-upgrade
> >
> > before doing the upgrade would be successful, but just doing
>
> As I recall, that has been a recommendation in previous versions. (The
> dpkg update, at least).
Yes. It has been.
> I wonder if it's sufficiently sensible that apt should offer to do it,
> on dist-upgrade? 'New versions of apt and dpkg are available,
> installing these first'.
I don't know.
But for this upgrade, upgrading apt seems to be really necessary to
work things out decently, and upgrading dpkg seems to be necessary to
survive the upgrade (dpkg in potato tends to segfault half the way through
the upgrade).
regards,
junichi
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