Package: release-notes Version: 5.0.1 Severity: normal
http://wiki.debian.org/Etch2LennyUpgrade section "Backports" says: If you do not use one of these exceptions, you can safely upgrade to lenny. If you use one of these exceptions, set the pin-priority (see man apt_preferences) temporarily to 1001 for all packages from etch, and you should be able to do a safe dist-upgrade too. The corresponding paragraph in "4.2.5.1. Using backports.org packages" of http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html says: If you do not use one of these exceptions, you can safely upgrade to lenny. If you use one of these exceptions, set the Pin-Priority (see apt_preferences(5)) temporarily to 1001 for all packages from lenny, and you should be able to do a safe dist-upgrade too. See the backports FAQ. Note that one says to pin etch, the other says to pin lenny. http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=faq (the backports FAQ) says: If you do not use one of these exceptions, you can safely upgrade to etch. If you use one of these exceptions, set the pin-priority (see man apt_preferences) temporarily to 1001 for all packages from etch, and you should be able to do a safe dist-upgrade too. But the backports FAQ says it is talking about upgrading from sarge-backports to etch. So, I'm guessing that it means to pin the version that you're upgrading TO, but I'm not sure. Please fix these documents to be consistent. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-bpo.1-686-bigmem Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
