Hi there, There's a very important section in the Release Notes with a FIXME: Upgrade your kernel or userland first? http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-kernelorder Based on #413458 (undeclared linux dependency on etch coreutils, affects upgrade path?) I would assume that it would make sense to first upgrade the userland, as not having a proper version of coreutils would make the kernel upgrade fail. However, users running with 2.6 kernels in Sarge and upgrading, might encounter issues with udev (it does not support versions prior to 2.6.15 and sarge provided 2.6.8), as described in #325568 (Upgrade path for udev needs documenting). It has been reported (in #396331) that a userland upgrade without upgrading first the kernel would remove the *running* kernel. This was fixed in aptitude 0.4.4-1 (bug #386307) which was allowed into testing. (Is a newer release going to be accepted, BTW?) So, what should we document? Or do we need more upgrades testing before resolving this? Regards Javier
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