trouble prestarting the etch->lenny upgrade.

[Hendrik Boom <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com>]

{1} The release notes did not say to run 

aptitude install debian-archive-keyring

but it was necessary to avoid obnoxious warnings.  It perhaps should.

(2) The release notes said to ask aptitude to report on the amount of 
storage needed by running

aptitude -y -s -t --with-recommends dist-upgrade

When I did that, it ran a very long time (at lest twenty minutes, 
probably over an hour, judging what I had time to do while waiting),
producing a huge stream of in-progress messages, ending with many copies 
of

open: 416367; closed: 298473; defer: 0; conflict: 12
open: 416367; closed: 298473; defer: 0; conflict: 12
open: 416367; closed: 298473; defer: 0; conflict: 12

The only output indicating trouble was the following list of broken 
packages.

The following packages are BROKEN:
  cups cups-bsd cupsys-bsd cupsys-pt dillo firefox fvwm-gnome ghostscript 
  libft-perl libglade-gnome0 libglade0 liborbit0 liborbit0ldbl libsasl2 
  multi-gnome-terminal xmms 

followed by large lists of packages to be removed, upgraded, and so 
forth, and then the huge was of in-progress messages.

Now I am inclined to ignore this behaviour and proceed with the 
installation.  The next step, assumming there's enough space, is to 
upgrade apt and/or aptitide.

Any comments?  Is this a know bug in etch's aptitude?  Or is my 
configuration wholly screwed up.

-- hendrik