On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:53:28AM +0200, Claus Fischer wrote: > In the upcoming sarge release and upgrade docs, please > remind people to turn off apt pinning. > > ***** > > I had "upgraded" a machine from woody to sarge but > forgot to remove my apt pinning in /etc/apt/preferences, > which was intended to run a few packages from > testing on woody. > > A few days later, for some reasons I thought the > machine had been upgraded already, and it took me > a while to find out why a few packages would remain > at an older version. > > This is not easy to detect if there are only a few > old packages from woody. A specific note in the > upgrade documentation would help others avoid > those pitfalls.
This is an issue for whoever at debian-doc is doing the release notes. (Is it still Rob Bradford?) -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
