On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > I've not in my Debian experience performed a distribution upgrade on a > system where backports packages are currently installed. Going from > Lenny to Squeeze will be my first. > > Will aptitude automatically and correctly replace my backport packages > with the corresponding new squeeze packages? How is this handled?
>From the release notes: "The backports.org repository mainly contains packages from “testing”, with reduced version numbers so that the upgrade path from lenny backports to squeeze still works. However, there are a few backports which are made from unstable: security updates, plus the following exceptions: Firefox, the Linux kernel, OpenOffice.org, and X.Org." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti==mmhvcet8hnzg8abfuxcms03ww7dcxhusz...@mail.gmail.com
