>On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 11:09:03PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
>> Girish Kulkarni wrote:
>>
>>> What is the typical timescale in which web site update and
>>> upgrade/installation documentation come up? Can I change
"etch" to
>>> "lenny" in my sources.list to upgrade?
>
>Yes. Lenny is already in the mirrors. It's just not called
"stable". And
>it is anyway a good idea not to use the names 'stable' and
'testing' in
>sources.list .
>
>>
>> I did that months ago. Make sure you do it in text mode and
first do
>> "aptitude upgrade" after that's done then do "aptitude full-
upgrade", if
>> you already know this then disregard my comments. :)
>
>Start with:
>
> aptitude install aptitude
>
>This will upgrade apt, dpkg, aptitude, libc6 and some other stuff.
>Generally newer apt/aptitude is more apt in handling upgrades.
The maintainers switched to lenny and a piece of letter does not
come from
neither the announce@ or the debian-user@.... This is not too
correct...