On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 09:11:04AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 04:28:24PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Steve Langasek writes ("Re: can Breaks be used already? (was Re: Opinions > > sought: mlocate appropriate for Priority: standard?)"): > > > I think you mean that Ian Jackson always recommends upgrading apt and > > > aptitude prior to performing dist-upgrade. :) The release notes haven't > > > always recommended this, because in the past there have been occasions > > > where > > > doing so ran into problems related to glibc/kernel circular deps.
> > No, I don't make any such recommendation, at least to users :-). > > But yes, I do think it would be a better state of affairs if we > > decided that users ought to do the upgrade with the new package > > installation toolstack, and supported that properly. > Maybe with the new symbols thing in dpkg-shlibdeps, the new package > installation toolstack would not depend on the new libc... But not for etch->lenny, because all binaries built with the lenny toolchain need the new ld.so due to changes in the binary format... -- 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]