Hi everyone, I'm new to Debian, so forgive me if I miss the obvious. (I tried to read as much of the relevant docs as possible, but maybe I missed something...)
When upgrading from potato to woody (added the testing lines to sources.list; apt-get update; apt-get -f dist-upgrade) the new X 4.0 packages are held back (how does that work anyway? Any documentation about the _rationale_ for that?). I thought I just have to reboot (like with SuSE), but then my machine hung on entry to runlevel 2. It seems that my rc scripts weren't upgraded yet. Ok, so then I did dpkg --configure --pending. That configured some more packages but the new X packages were still kept on hold -- so I installed them manually. (Why do I have to do that? Shouldn't apt be able to figure that out?) I guess I am missing something fundamental here. I assumed that Debian tries to convert my 3.3.6 config files to 4.0.2-7 ones or at least guide the user thru the configuration using debconfig. Is that true? If not should I just configure the system as if I got it directely from xfree.org? Any comments/clarifications appreciated! BTW my kernel is still 2.2.18pre21. Next time I'll use script to document my upgrade better. :-) Chris
