Request For Candidates: Application Review Board

[Luke Faraone]

On 08/16/2010 04:41 PM, Stefan Potyra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Monday 16 August 2010 22:26:29 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan:
>> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Stefan Potyra
>>
>> <stefan.potyra at informatik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>>> What is particularly worth investigating regarding m+1's release? How
>>> will the upgrade path of these applications be handled? (especially,
>>> since -- as far as I understand it -- these applications are meant to be
>>> targetted only at a specific release, something which apt doesn't handle
>>> (yet?))
>>
>> In the usual way, if a package isn't in the archive for the new
>> release, you get a notification that the software is obsolete and a
>> request for removal.  I imagine it'd be the same here.
> 
> Hm... apt doesn't track that information afaik. Are you referring to 
> update-manager? 

Update manager is the supported way to upgrade Ubuntu. Running "aptitude
full-upgrade" or "apt-get dist-upgrade" will also remove "obsolete"
packages.

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