On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 02:51:27PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 07:00:41PM +0100, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 17:45:23 +0000, John Talbut wrote:
> > > Does the note about not using aptitude only apply to using it > > > through the command line? Is there any reason not to upgrade in the > > > way that I have done? > > The release notes document one upgrade path, which has been tested to > > work reasonably in a number of cases. Different options may work in > > your case, but it's not possible for us to document and test more than > > just one way and be confident that they'll all work out without troubles. > That is true, but what Mr. Talbut was pointing out was that he *was* > haveing trouble with the documented upgrade path, but none with his > other path using aptitude. Then he can provide specifics and we can try to resolve those. It's not reasonable to flip-flop on the apt-get/aptitude question every time someone presents a case that isn't currently handled by the upgrade instructions, because there are always going to be corner cases we haven't managed to test that won't upgrade cleanly /whichever/ method we choose. Also, John says he fired up aptitude /interactively/ to resolve the upgrade problems. For interactive upgrades, we still recommend aptitude, but that's not the part of the documentation being commented on here. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
