Debian Upgrade May Cause Serious Breakage

daria42 writes "Debian developer Bill Allombert has e-mailed the Debian community saying he estimates about 30% of users upgrading from Debian Woody to Sarge will suffer 'serious breakage'. Allombert says the upgrade process suffers from a number of bugs reported before the release went live several days ago. Chief among the problems, he said, were cyclic dependencies and the fact that software installation tool apt depended heavily on the changing C++ libraries. Allombert wants developers to test the upgrade cycle continuously during development and not just during the freeze period just before release."

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Tools and Libraries

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installation tool apt depended heavily on the changing C++ libraries

If apt is that dependent on the libraries, maybe it should be staticly linked. I know static linking is usually considered a bad thing, but this is one case where an exception to the rule may be needed.