upgrade woody=>sarge, aptitude-update

[Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net>]

hi,

I'm trying to upgrade from woody to sarge by following the release notes,
which state that I should first upgrade to sarge's aptitude.

However, when I do this, aptitude tries to update glibc and a lot of
other packages, and the point of first upgrading aptitude was to
get better resolution of dependencies for most packages.

Next I tried to mount the CD and install aptitude by hand:

$ dpkg -i aptitude*.deb
[...]
Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
Setting up aptitude-doc-en (0.2.15.9-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptitude:
 aptitude depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3; however:
  Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3.3 is not installed.
 aptitude depends on libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.2.5-6.
 aptitude depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:3.4.1-3); however:
  Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:3.0.4-7.
 aptitude depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.4-1); however:
  Version of libncurses5 on system is 5.2.20020112a-7.
 aptitude depends on libsigc++-1.2-5c102; however:
  Package libsigc++-1.2-5c102 is not installed.
 aptitude depends on libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.4-1); however:
  Package libstdc++5 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing aptitude (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 aptitude

So I has to update glibc. What did I do wrong or is this the usual
upgrade-path?

thanks,

-- 
Felix Natter
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