Re: release notes inconsistent: woody vs. sarge aptitude
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:15:41PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 04:17, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> > The release notes presently read:
> >
> > A.2 Installing woody version of aptitude
> > First you need to make sure you will install woody's version of
> > aptitude and not sarge's by following the instructions in Checking
> > your sources list, Section A.3.
> >
> > which is inconsistent with:
> >
> > .5.2 Upgrading aptitude
> > Upgrade tests have shown that sarge's version of aptitude is better at
> > solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get
> > or woody's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first using:
> >
> > # aptitude install aptitude
>
> Maybe, but probably it is correct. To check I need to know which release
> notes you were reading (i.e. for which architecture).
Yes, I was somewhat confused. I now have an opened bug on this:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=316379
which now is just a request for the release-notes to be rephrased.
Justin
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