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I just upgraded my friend's laptop from the latest Wheezy to the latest Jessie without a hitch!

Things went really smoothly. I changed the sources.list by hand, ran apt-get upgrade; apt-get dist-upgrade and everything went almost perfectly.

For some reason, db5.1-util and unoconv were not correctly upgraded on dist-upgrade. Running dist-upgrade fixed the latter, but not the former. I eneded up just purging db5.1-util.

autoremove didn't catch everything: a bunch of packages were "obsolete" according to aptitude and I had to remove those by hand. it would be nice if the upgrade process would cover those as well. this includes python 2.6, the older kernel, openjdk 6, gcc 4.6 and a bunch more random libs that clutter the system.

otherwise everything seems to be going well so far. the user's only complaint so far is that the minimize button is gone from gnome, but she figured out she can click on the window in the window list to achieve the same result.

mission accomplished! although ideally, *she* would have been able to do the upgrade herself. maybe next time!

a.

PS: this is not really a bug report, more of a "good job" to whoever is receiving those messages. :) of course if you think some bug reports should be open for specific issues, I'll be glad to follow any pointer!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.3
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 01:59:58PM -0400, anarcat wrote:

autoremove didn't catch everything: a bunch of packages were "obsolete" according to aptitude and I had to remove those by hand. it would be nice if the upgrade process would cover those as well. this includes python 2.6, the older kernel, openjdk 6, gcc 4.6 and a bunch more random libs that clutter the
system.

It is dangerous to remove them since some users might still have non-dpkg-installed software depending on them.

Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

Imagine a large red swirl here.

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Le Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:59:58 -0400,
anarcat <anarcat@debian.org> a écrit :

otherwise everything seems to be going well so far. the user's only
complaint so far is that the minimize button is gone from gnome, but
she figured out she can click on the window in the window list to
achieve the same result.

You can set that with dconf-editor | gsettings but is it required...

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haricophile@aranha.fr

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