Paolo, your Mail-Followup-To: specifies an address that is bouncing with "Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table". I removed it from this message. Contact me offline if you want details. Paolo wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Most archives and mirrors do support the named release tracks though. > > eg debian multimedia (and mirrors) is one of those where 'sarge' disappeared > some months ago. Yes, but on those "oldstable" disappeared too, because "sarge" and "oldstable" are no longer current releases.. debian-multimedia does support both "etch" and "stable" but I recommend using "etch" for the reasons discussed. > > automatic attempt to do a major upgrade. It would be great to be able > > to do an automatic upgrade across major versions. But so much changes > > that some hand-holding through the process has been required. > > yes, and I'd like a feature to apt-get/dselect/aptitude/whatever to set the > limit of acceptable upgrades/deletes at once. So that "stable" would work right up until everything changed? :-) Bob
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