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Re: etch upgrade problem



On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:38:49PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:34PM -0500, Seth Goodman wrote:
> > Andrei Popescu <mailto:andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote on Tuesday, April
> > 10, 2007 10:35 AM -0500:
>  
> > I am curious whether some debconf action, or dependencies in the deb
> > files, could have warned the user?
> 
> Prior to a new release, I wonder if there should be a security-update to
> apt that issues a notice to all debian users who use apt, warning them
> about a pending release and to prepare such things as sources.list so
> that they don't accidentally upgrade without reading the release notes.  

It sounds doable, but you have to do it as a package which only contains
the "news" as debconf messages.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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