On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > Andre Lehovich wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > > >>- It is a apt-get bug only, aptitude handles the same situation just > >> fine. But both apt-get from woody and sarge bail out. > > > > > > Is apt-get a supported upgrade route from Woody to Sarge? > > The release notes [1] recommend using aptitude instead. > > > > [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/alpha/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-upgrade-process > The recommended route is not the only one. I (and probably a lot of > users) expect apt-get dist-upgrade and even dselect or synaptic to work. This is not the only reason for preferring aptitude over apt-get for upgrades; there have been a number of upgrade issues that aptitude handles better than apt-get where it's not clear that this can be considered a bug in apt-get. In this case, OTOH, there seems to be a real bug in the handling of libterm-readline-perl-perl. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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