[H-GEN] New Debian Stable Release

[Robert Brockway]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Adrian Sutton wrote:

> My routine security update this morning descended into a bit of an
> issue as aptitude wanted to update a huge number of packages and wound
> up with unresolvable conflicts.  Apparently Debian released an update
> on Valentine's day that I wasn't aware of...
>
> For now, I've switched my sources list from "stable" to "etch" and

Yes I learnt this on a previous cycle.  Since then I have used the code 
name (etch) rather than the designation (stable) in sources.list.  Such a 
major upgrade of a production box needs to be planned and tested.

> gotten the sane list of security updates I was expecting, but it looks 
> like I need to plan an upgrade cycle soon.  The release notes at 
> http://debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/

Etch will continue to get security updated for 12 months afaik so no need 
to rush.

I've upgraded my home firewall and one virtual box at work.  I'll be 
planning a series of upgrades over the next few weeks.  No hurry :)

> (Yes, I did run aptitude dist-upgrade instead of just aptitude upgrade).

I got a small number of problems on my first dist-upgrade (one of them was 
libsasl2).  These were resolved by taking the recommendation to hold some 
packages back. After the dist-upgrade and a reboot in to the new kernel I 
ran aptitude dist-upgrade again and the last handful of packages upgraded. 
So far the etch->lenny has a thumbs up from me.

Oh, I was surprised by the release though.  When Lenny was released as 
stable I was in fact backporting packages to Etch to keep us going until 
Lenny was released :)

Rob

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