Bug#489132: upgrade apt/aptitude first
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> On 2008-10-05 15:02, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I've seen several reports that aptitude from etch is unable to dist-upgrade
> > to Lenny, it loops searching for a solution… so yes I believe that
> > recommending to upgrade aptitude first is a good idea.
>
> Can't we recommend use of apt-get? It seems to work. (Never
> tried aptitude, though.)
We can but it doesn't look serious if we recommend something else
for each release, I'd rather like that we stick to one front-end
and make it good. We're far from that unfortunately, the apt* packages
need some serious help as already pointed out by others.
Cheers,
--
Raphaël Hertzog
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