Bug#309340: woody -> sarge failure on hppa - aptitude segfault

[Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>]

Hi Bill,

On Monday, 16 May 2005, you wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 08:11:46AM -0700, Paul Telford wrote:
> > Package: upgrade-reports
> > 
> > Upgrade date: Mon, 16 May 2005 08:03:30 -0700
> > uname -a: Linux zaphod 2.4.27-pa4 #2 Wed Nov 3 08:18:42 PST 2004 parisc unknown
> > Method: aptitude
> > 
> > 
> > Further Comments/Problems:
> > 
> > Following the instructions in the release notes I installed aptitude.
> > Then the following:
> > 
> > # aptitude update
> > Segmentation fault
> 
> Try to first change your sources.list to sarge,
> apt-get update
> apt-get install aptitude
> and then
> aptitude dist-upgrade.
> 
> aptitude is a C++ program and support for C++ in hppa-woody is, hum,
> limited (e.g. no exception support).

I will add this to the release notes.

Greetings
Martin