Re: potato's apt makes the wrong decisions on dist-upgrade
Colin Watson wrote:
> There've been quite a few people coming to the debian-user list recently
> with the problem that packages like man-db and xbase-clients go missing
> when upgrading from potato to woody using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with
> potato's apt. I had been advising people to upgrade dpkg and apt to the
> versions in woody first, which does seem to fix those problems, but at
> the cost of removing other packages along the way which the user will
> have to reinstall - so it only helps to some extent, and may not be
> something we can recommend.
>
> What can we do about this? [...]
In the CD1 for potato there is an `upgrade' directory containing a
recent dpkg and a recent apt.
We can (and probably should) do the same for woody CDs, i.e. provide
a recent version of apt compiled under potato. This would be much
better than nothing.
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