Hi Steve, On Montag, 22. November 2010, Steve Langasek wrote: > If you conclude that this is something that needs to be documented in the > release notes, please reassign it to the release-notes pseudopackage. > However, there have been other reports that trying to upgrade apt first > before upgrading the rest of the system will result in a poor upgrade > experience (due to the partial upgrade itself rather than due to bugs in > the squeeze version of apt), so I think it's a bad idea to include this in > the recommended upgrade procedure when the only known benefit is that it > provides a smoother upgrade when recommends are disabled and one particular > artificial set of packages is installed. (I.e., this doesn't appear to > have ever been a true system upgrade, only a piuparts test.) if this only affects "strange setups" like piuparts tests, wouldn't it be appropriate to lower the severity? </seriously trying to understand what we should do with this bug> also, maybe piuparts(d.o) should have test setups with "--with-recommends" too - but there are already too many errors with the existing setup ;-) cheers, Holger
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