On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:58:32PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:53:28AM +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: > > In the upcoming sarge release and upgrade docs, please > > remind people to turn off apt pinning. > > > > ***** > > > > I had "upgraded" a machine from woody to sarge but > > forgot to remove my apt pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, > > which was intended to run a few packages from > > testing on woody. > > > > A few days later, for some reasons I thought the > > machine had been upgraded already, and it took me > > a while to find out why a few packages would remain > > at an older version. > > > > This is not easy to detect if there are only a few > > old packages from woody. A specific note in the > > upgrade documentation would help others avoid > > those pitfalls. > > This is an issue for whoever at debian-doc is doing the release notes. > (Is it still Rob Bradford?)
Thanks Colin. I'll commit something later today. Cheers, Rob -- Rob 'robster' Bradford http://robster.org.uk
