Comment 10 for bug 107752

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 22:18 +0000, C.Kontros wrote:
> In the end its moot as the package hasnt been released and the entries
> your sources.lits entries dont exist.

I don't mean this specific URL, I mean the necessity of stripping your
sources.list to the bare minimum in order to do a dist. upgrade. Using a
big button on upgrade manager for "dist. upgrade" implies that you can
press it and get your dist. upgraded. In fact, if what I'm understanding
here is correct, you actually need to reduce your sources.list to an
official minimum.

This is not a major problem for anybody with experience (though the need
to do so is not prominently documented at the same place you click on
the button or in the readme that pops up), but it is a command-line user
task that is unnecessary and might scare off novice users.

My proposal for the short term is that a prominent note be added to the
pop up window that appears after you select dist. upgrade from the
upgrade manager asking you to comment out anything but the official
repositories.

For the longer term, why not build and use a temporary sources.list for
the upgrade? This would make the whole process invisible to the user and
is well worth doing.

-dan

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