Debian Lenny and release dates

[Ken O. Burtch]

I have similar problems with Ubuntu 6 on coLinux.  I installed 
"taskjuggler" and then uninstalled it.  apt-get reports that the 
uninstaller is trying to run the "touch" command with the wrong 
parameters.  Now I can neither install nor uninstall taskjuggler, nor can 
I install any updates because apt-get keeps trying to uninstall 
taskjuggler and fails.  apt-get clean and apt-get dist-upgrade do not 
help.

Unfortunately, there's a bug in the Ubuntu 7 image for coLinux that won't 
allow fonts to be installed.  So that limits its usefulness.

Ken B.
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:08:47AM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
>> Ah, okay. So what I think I was really looking for was to be running 'testing',
>> not 'lenny'. I would like to always be in the 'testing' state, at least for
>> this box.
>
> Then you simply list testing in your sources.list.
>
>> Thing is, is it safe for me right now to change my sources.list from lenny to
>> testing, and just run with that? Or should I immediately run a dist-upgrade? I
>> just installed lenny a couple of weeks ago, so they can't have diverged yet,
>> right?
>
> Perfectly safe to do since testing and lenny is exactly the same thing
> at this time.  Doing a dist-upgrade either before or after makes no
> difference, since you will get the same updates either way.
>
> The ftp archive says:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 ftp      ftp            5 Apr  8  2007 testing -> lenny
>
> Can't get much more identical than that.
>
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