Bug#533265: It would be good to fix this while people are still upgrading

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

On 01/22/2010 07:50:02 AM, Nicolas François wrote:

> The problem with this bug is that there are no generic upgrade path.
> The upgrade may fail with apt-get or with aptitude.
> 
> I made tested with the various default Debian installs, and I could
> not
> find a generic upgrade path that always work.

I thought that the last note on the bug by Raphael Hertzog
indicating that "aptitude install dpkg aptitude apt-get"
when aptitude was installed or "apt-get install dpkg aptitude apt-get"
when apt-get was installed was something that always worked.

I could be wrong.


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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