Thread: package upstart breaks apt-get dist-upgrade
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michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2011-04-04 , 12:58
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Originally Posted by acrux View Post
Hmm, as a quite long time linux user I thought that this is the most correct way to upgrade a linux distribution...

Is that limitation limited to maemo.org repositories or to all maemo repositories?

Well, it worked perfectly until that "upstart" package appeared at first in extras-testing and now in extras...
Debian is only one linux distribution. It supports stable branches of software, also called distribution, to confuse things even more. The dist-upgrade command was intended to upgrade a whole distribution from one to another, like from maemo to harmattan. The working path to upgrade is the 'apt-get upgrade' command.

Yes, i know, there are linux distribution, that try to roll the release, by continuously upgrading the database, but Maemo does not work that way.