Re: Packages rename and conffiles
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:53:59AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote:
> > What position do you think we should take on this issue? If there's no
> > known solution that avoids conffile prompts with both the old and new
> > versions, and given that there's no good systematic way to arrange for one
> > version of dpkg or the other to be installed at the time of upgrade,
> > perhaps it's best to favor the new dpkg?
> Is it possible simply to tell people "upgrade dpkg first" along with
> aptitude in the Sarge->Etch upgrade release notes? That would at least
> take care of everyone who bothers to read the instructions :-)
Without a backport like Ian mentioned in his last mail, "upgrade dpkg first"
also means pulling in a new libc6, which looks like it will force the
removal of initrd-tools and any reverse-dependencies along with it -- IOW,
the kernel...
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