1.9rc1 countdown

[Martin Pool]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 11:40 AM, James Westby
<jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 01:19 +0100, Tim Michelsen wrote:
>> It say something like this:
>>
>> Run a partial upgrade, to install as many updates as possible.
>>
>> THis can be caused by:
>>       * A previous upgrade which didn't complete
>>       * Problems with some of the installed software
>>       * Unofficial software packages not provided by Ubuntu
>>       * Normal changes....
>
> This could be that it needs to remove a package to complete
> the upgrade, for instance if you have bzr-svn installed, and a
> compatible version of bzr-svn is not available in the PPA.
>
> There are a few other reasons as well, but that would be my
> first guess.

Unfortunately because of the intersection of
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/125103> (ppa archives are
not signed) and
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/218086>
(synaptic won't upgrade if there are unsigned archives) you may get to
a situation where the regular upgrade tools can't proceed.  In that
case you will need to run 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' from a terminal.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>