Re: new draft release announcement

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

vorlon@netexpress.net (Steve Langasek) writes:

> > apt pinning, to ease partial upgrades to our testing branch. Aptitude is
> > a replacement for the venerable dselect program and will make it easier to
> > select packages. Four thousand new software packages are added to the
> > distribution in Debian GNU/Linux 3.0.
> 
> I'm wary of the wording "aptitude [...] will make it easier to select 
> packages."  How do you respond then to long-time dselect users who try 
> aptitude and /don't/ find it easier? :)  Perhaps:
> 
>   Aptitude is a replacement for the venerable dselect program that is
>   intended to make it easier to select packages.

s/replacement/alternative/

"Replacement" implies dselect is gone, which it is not.

Bdale


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