On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:53:59AM -0800, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > > What position do you think we should take on this issue? If there's no > > known solution that avoids conffile prompts with both the old and new > > versions, and given that there's no good systematic way to arrange for one > > version of dpkg or the other to be installed at the time of upgrade, > > perhaps it's best to favor the new dpkg?
> Is it possible simply to tell people "upgrade dpkg first" along with > aptitude in the Sarge->Etch upgrade release notes? That would at least > take care of everyone who bothers to read the instructions :-) Without a backport like Ian mentioned in his last mail, "upgrade dpkg first" also means pulling in a new libc6, which looks like it will force the removal of initrd-tools and any reverse-dependencies along with it -- IOW, the kernel... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
