On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:40:46 +0000, Justin B Rye wrote: > Julien Cristau wrote: > >>> Why would you do that? > >> > >> I can't tell you the rationale; I'm just trying to follow the > >> recommendations in the paragraph Adam pointed at*: > > > > I think mostly it means aptitude's curses interface. But in any case > > for installing a single package it doesn't matter. > > If you think that's the meaning it should convey, then it seems to > me you're asking for that section of the releasenotes to be changed. > Do we know who contributed that text? If we could ask them what it > was supposed to mean, that would also offer an opportunity to answer > the question about why the official recommendation should have > changed between Lenny and Squeeze. Well the recommendation changed because aptitude's behaviour on upgrades from one release to the next was already broken for etch→lenny, and isn't better for lenny→squeeze. Cheers, Julien
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