On Sat, Apr 07, 2007 at 07:10:27PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > The announcement is available at > http://people.debian.org/~tolimar/release.txt (and soon .wml). > It would be great if you could translate it in time so the anouncement > would be in all kind of languages in place. There's a few thing WRONG with this announcement, some information was taken verbatim from sarge's and is *not* true. Please take a look at the following paragraph: "Upgrades to Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 from the previous release, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 codenamed "sarge", are automatically handled by the aptitude package management tool for most configurations, and to a certain degree also by the apt-get package management tool. As always, Debian GNU/Linux systems can be upgraded quite painlessly, in place, without any forced downtime, but it is strongly recommended to read the release notes for possible issues. For detailed instructions about installing and upgrading Debian GNU/Linux, please see the release notes <http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/releasenotes>. Please note that the release notes will be further improved and translated to additional languages in the coming weeks. " Several things: - upgrades are not automatically handled by aptitude in this release, there are some steps users have to take before going 'dist-upgrade'. They should be warned to go to read the Release Notes *before* doing this upgrade - apt-get is *not* recommended - there *is* downtime, a new kernel needs to be installed and that requires a reboot - we should not say "painlessly" here. The upgrade *is* painful for some architectures and users have to be extra careful Maybe I'm biased because of Release Notes editing, but I think that should be ammended. I'm not certain if this went to -release first for review by Release Managers, but it certainly should have gone to (before asking for translations!) Regards Javier
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