update-manager for AMD64

[Manu Cornet]

Hi !

> I'm starting to consider upgrading to Dapper.  I was going to try the new 
> version of update-manager but I could not find it for AMD64.  Is it 
> available? Is dist-upgrading recommended for that platform? Also, if 
> update-manager isn't available to proceed the dist-upgrade, can I still do 
> dist-upgrade using the manual method (modifying apt sources to point them to 
> dapper).

I've been running dapper on my amd64 box since a few weeks ago and
everything works quite well (of course it is still under heavy
development : if you need a very stable system I suggest you stick to
breezy and wait until April). update-manager works fine as well, but
AFAIK it only performs upgrades (not dist-upgrades) : you'll need
synaptic for this, or just a manual "apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade".

Cheers,
Manu