Ok, here's some things I'm missing in the Release Notes for sarge: - More information on what to do _after_ an upgrade, specially regarding finding packages that are no longer useful in your system. I commented about this previously and, even if there are people against including a full list of dummy packages, maybe some hints on how to find them would be proper. I find it _specially_ important that people should be warned about packages no longer being provided by Debian since they might believe they still have support (even, security updates) for them when, in fact, they are not in the archive any longer. I also believe we should ask debian-user (and -devel?) about problems during an upgrade that might be worthwhile adding to the manual. For example, people using ancient GNOME versions (such as woody's) might experience issues if resuing their gnome configuration in newer GNOME versions. - More information on available translations. I provided a few paragraphs for woody regarding translations that have been removed, however, I think we need to stress the fact that the Debian _installation_ is available now in even more languages than before. Moreover, no only the installation (d-i) is translated, but most people using a language for the installation will see all the installation in their language (as opposed to the previous situation in which one would just see boot-floppies translation and base-config and packages would not be translated). The effort done by translators (as shown in http://people.debian.org/~seppy/d-i/translation-status.html) should be commended. People can now install Debian in over 30 different languages (1st stage) and around 20 languages are fully translated (all installation stages, from d-i to the final system) - More statistics of available packages. Like saying "Sarge has XXX more packages than woody and YYY packages have been updated since the woody release" [.. Maybe this should go to the installation guide ... ] - Information on what steps to take _after_ a new installation. I think it's specially important to recommend people running Desktop systems to install a personal firewall (gnome-firestarters for GNOME and maybe guarddog for KDE) since we don't actually activate one. Also, installing security upgrades for systems facing the Internet should be stressed out too. Maybe this should go to the installation manual, however. BTW, several reasons for this, including several services (like portmap+FAM if running gnome) that might add some exposure if installing a generic desktop environment (like GNOME). ¿Anybody against this? If not, I will try to add it in to the Release Notes soon. Regards Javier
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