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Bug#706551: marked as done (release-notes: drop "Package management" section from "What's new")

Your message dated Wed, 1 May 2013 15:43:58 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #706551,
regarding release-notes: drop "Package management" section from "What's new"
to be marked as done.

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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

On Apr 12 on debian-doc, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Daniel Hartwig wrote:
>> Neither is this something new, so why not just remove this old
>> notice?
> 
> Yes, sure, that would be an option.  I attach a version of my patch
> that removes this particular paragraph from whats-new.dbk; let's see
> if this gets us anywhere.

Nope.  Trying again as a bugreport.

Even disregarding the poorly phrased stuff about apt-get's
"non-interactive" CLI, this paragraph has got to go.  The advice it's
trying to give was originally addressed (in a less confusing form) to
people running *Etch* and upgrading to *Lenny*.  It is by no stretch
of the imagination a feature that's "new in Wheezy"!

If we want to keep some standard recommendation that upgrades should
always be done with apt-get rather than aptitude, that's exactly the
kind of material that belongs in the "upgrades" chapter, not in
"What's new in Debian GNU/Linux 7.0".
-- 
JBR	with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
	sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package

Index: whats-new.dbk
===================================================================
--- whats-new.dbk	(revision 9854)
+++ whats-new.dbk	(working copy)
@@ -402,18 +402,6 @@
 </para>
 </section>
 
-<section id="pkgmgmt">
-<title>Package management</title>
-<para>
-The preferred program for interactive package management from a terminal is
-<command>aptitude</command>. For a non-interactive command line interface
-for package management, it is recommended to use <command>apt-get</command>.
-<command>apt-get</command> is also the preferred tool for upgrades
-between major releases.
-</para>
-
-</section>
-
 <section id="multiarch">
 <title>Multiarch</title>
 <para>

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On Wed, May  1, 2013 at 14:30:33 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:

> Package: release-notes
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> On Apr 12 on debian-doc, Justin B Rye wrote:
> > Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> >> Neither is this something new, so why not just remove this old
> >> notice?
> > 
> > Yes, sure, that would be an option.  I attach a version of my patch
> > that removes this particular paragraph from whats-new.dbk; let's see
> > if this gets us anywhere.
> 
> Nope.  Trying again as a bugreport.
> 
> Even disregarding the poorly phrased stuff about apt-get's
> "non-interactive" CLI, this paragraph has got to go.  The advice it's
> trying to give was originally addressed (in a less confusing form) to
> people running *Etch* and upgrading to *Lenny*.  It is by no stretch
> of the imagination a feature that's "new in Wheezy"!
> 
Gone.

Cheers,
Julien

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