[NCLUG] Debian Question

[dann frazier]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 03:44:07PM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
> dann frazier wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote:
> > > The 'upgrade' target upgrades packages of the same names.  ...
> > 
> > fyi, there was a discussion about this on planet.debian.org last
> > month. Colin Watson was complaining about the new-dependencies issue:
> > 
> >   http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom
> 
> I should spend more time reading blogs.  Interesting stuff.  If only I
> had the time...
> 
> > And, as I recall, one of the maintainers blog-replied and said they'd
> > consider changing this behavior. I can't find a link to that reply
> > though (yay blog conversations).
> 
> This one I think?
> 
>   http://blog.drinsama.de/erich/en/linux/debian/2007112801-dist-upgrade-hints.html

That was the post that Colin was responding to, but the post about
changing the behavior was in response to Colin's post.

Ah, I think it was this one:
http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/installing-packages-in-safe-upgrade/

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dann frazier