Colin Watson wrote: > There've been quite a few people coming to the debian-user list recently > with the problem that packages like man-db and xbase-clients go missing > when upgrading from potato to woody using 'apt-get dist-upgrade' with > potato's apt. I had been advising people to upgrade dpkg and apt to the > versions in woody first, which does seem to fix those problems, but at > the cost of removing other packages along the way which the user will > have to reinstall - so it only helps to some extent, and may not be > something we can recommend. > > What can we do about this? [...]
In the CD1 for potato there is an `upgrade' directory containing a recent dpkg and a recent apt. We can (and probably should) do the same for woody CDs, i.e. provide a recent version of apt compiled under potato. This would be much better than nothing.
