On Thursday 16 November 2006 01:25, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:02:22AM -0000, peter green wrote: > > 2: the aptitude part also seems to have been copied straight from the > > sarge notes, is it still relavent > > aptitude in etch is _much_ better at conflict resolution than the one > in sarge. (However, sometimes the upgrades get too big for it and the > algorithms start running in exponential time; I'm not sure if we can do > anything useful with this except document it and ask the user to fix > some issues manually; even though aptitude offers to abort by itself > after a certain amount of time, this can be confusing to users.) Can you elaborate on the "much better"? Much better how or in which specific cases? As a test by Bill Allombert has shown [1] that upgrading aptitude by itself may lead to a number of package removals and an upgrade with Sarge's aptitude seems to be relatively painless [2], I currently don't see what is gained by advising to update aptitude first. For Woody->Sarge there were very strong arguments to update aptitude first, but for Sarge->Etch my personal feeling ATM is that we should not do this. Cheers, FJP [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/11/msg00345.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/11/msg00347.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2006/11/msg00358.html
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