12 Oct 08 Help Debian, today’s Linux news.

I was browsing Linux Today this evening and made some observations:

Debian Linux Needs Your Help

Original post details:

Debian Linux Needs Your Help
Cyber Cynic: “The community was doing much better this time for the forthcoming release of Debian 5, Lenny, but some last-minute problems still need cleaning up and the Debian developers would like you to help.”

I’ll give it a go. The posting details the following simple steps to upgrade:

1. Make backups

2. Change your /etc/apt/sources.list

3. Run aptitude update to get information about new packages

4. Run aptitude install dpkg aptitude apt to install the newest package management

5. Run aptitude full-upgrade

I wouldn’t advise testing on a production machine but as a 30% Windows XP/70% Debian etch user, I have a desktop or two that is pretty ‘debian’ intensive in terms of usage and packages so would be glad of what is supposed to be a reasonably stable upgrade and happily report back bugs.

What he’d like from developers is “pretty easy: Fix rc-bugs, take care, that the fixed packages are migrated to “Lenny,” do upgrade tests, document problems in the release-notes. Pretty simple, isn’t it?” Well, it is if you’re a Linux developer, but otherwise, not really.

It’s a worthwhile cause imho, however coming at a bad time for me as I just get into the swing of things with the robot project. I will have to try and put some time away for help with Lenny but I can’t promise how much.

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