Hi, i quoted: > > https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/amd64/release-notes.en.txt > > "Please note that using apt-get is not recommended for the upgrade > > from etch to lenny."
Greg Wooledge wrote: > That's VERY old. Yeah. We all were much younger back then. > The algorithms used by apt-get were improved after > that point, and apt-get became the recommended tool for release > upgrades. The recommendation has now switched to apt, though I'm > not convinced there's any significant difference between apt-get and > apt at this point other than the cosmetics and the automatic .deb > file removal. I wonder why apt full-upgrade does not perform the step apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs automatically. I understand from its man page that it is mainly a frontend for some specialized "apt-*" commands which reserves the freedom to do things without having to stay backwards compatible with old use cases. Whatever, the problems which i encountered with my Sid were due to 9 years of cruft and a little hack to keep old stuff running a few years ago. (I still have an old hard disk with Lenny. Possibly i could get it to boot. But it would not be able to do remote shell with Trixie.) Have a nice day :) Thomas
