Bug#503296: etch->lenny upgrade through aptitude removed gnome-desktop-environment

[Giovanni Rapagnani <rapagnani@gmail.com>]

On 05/11/08 15:08, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Does apt-get dist-upgrade instead of aptitude work better?  X drivers
> disappearing on upgrade is really not a viable option, for obvious
> reasons.
Yes, same system, same etch installation, I had the system upgraded to lenny in 
3 steps:
  aptitude install apt aptitude
  aptitude upgrade
  apt-get dist-upgrade

(there is no typing error above, 2 first with aptitude, 3rd with apt-get)

Before running 'apt-get dist-upgrade', I checked if 'aptitude dist-upgrade' 
would have removed the Xorg drivers and yes it would.

Some bug reports have already reported apt-get works better than aptitude. But 
it seems that it won't look serious to recommend the use of a different package 
management front-end for each release. And as aptitude was recommended in the 2 
previous release, the ideas would be (see bug #489132) :
 - 1/ to stick at aptitude, find the possible issues and document these issues 
in the release notes;
 - 2/ improve aptitude.

Note:
 Recommended front-end in the previous release-notes
   slink->potato : apt-get
   potato->woody : dselect
   woody->sarge : aptitude
   sarge->etch : aptitude
	
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Giovanni