Bug#316379: release notes inconsistent: woody vs. sarge aptitude

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:24:30AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: important
> 
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-doc/2005/06/msg00355.html
> 
> I haven't gotten a response in two days, and the bug still applies, so
> I'm reporting it officially now..
> 
>  | The release notes presently read:
>  | 
>  | A.2 Installing woody version of aptitude
>  | First you need to make sure you will install woody's version of
>  | aptitude and not sarge's by following the instructions in Checking
>  | your sources list, Section A.3. 
>  | 
>  | which is inconsistent with:
>  | 
>  | .5.2 Upgrading aptitude
>  | Upgrade tests have shown that sarge's version of aptitude is better at
>  | solving the complex dependencies during an upgrade than either apt-get
>  | or woody's aptitude. It should therefore be upgraded first using: 
>  | 
>  |      # aptitude install aptitude
>  | 
>  | This should be changed, no?

AFAIUI, the purpose of this text is to ask the user to 
First, install the woody version (if available) and
Second, upgrade to the sarge version,
so the text is correct.

However there are anecdotical evidence that upgrade to the sarge version
of aptitude is a painful process and users are sometime better served to
use the woody version to process the upgrade, see bug #312106.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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