Thomas Koenig wrote: > > I just spent an interesting afternoon trying to upgrade a 1.1 system > to 1.3. > > First, /var/lib/dpkg/available was corrupted because of some > incorrect values in the Version - field (somehow they had gotten to > the format of 1:1-2 or similar; bug report submitted). I fixed > these by
This is a legitimate version format. You failed to upgrade dpkg before upgrading everything else. Fellow Debian developers, we _really_ need to put up warnings that this needs to be done! Otherwise innocent people will corrupt their systems by upgrading. There shoud be a heavily pointed-to "Upgrade FAQ", explaining that some packages (dpkg, ldso, libc5) should be upgraded by hand before any attempt at a massive "all at once" upgrade. I think this would have prevented most of your other problems as well... --Galen -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
