On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 12:53:34PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Several things:
> - upgrades are not automatically handled by aptitude in this release, there > are some steps users have to take before going 'dist-upgrade'. They should > be warned to go to read the Release Notes *before* doing this upgrade Agreed on that. > - apt-get is *not* recommended > - there *is* downtime, a new kernel needs to be installed and that requires > a reboot Installing a new kernel doesn't *require* a reboot. Depends on whether you like your downtime to be scheduled or unscheduled. ;) > - we should not say "painlessly" here. The upgrade *is* painful for some > architectures and users have to be extra careful I dunno, this is a press announcement and compared to what else is out there, the Debian upgrades are still pretty amazingly painless. > Maybe I'm biased because of Release Notes editing, but I think that should be > ammended. I'm not certain if this went to -release first for review by > Release Managers, but it certainly should have gone to (before asking for > translations!) Yes, it did get passed by us first (and yes, you're biased, release notes and press releases are two very, very different things ;). Cheers, -- 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]
