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Distribution Upgrade tools for Ubuntu ------------------------------------- This tool implements the spec at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomaticUpgrade Broadly speaking a upgrade from one version to the next consists of three things: 1) The user must be informed about the new available distro (possibly release notes as well) and run the upgrade tool 2) The upgrade tool must be able to download updated information how to perform the upgrade (e.g. additional steps like upgrading certain libs first) 3) The upgrade tools runs and installs/remove packages and does some additional steps like post-release cleanup The steps in additon to upgrading the installed packages fall into this categories: * switch to new sources.list entries * adding the default user to new groups (warty, scanner group) * remove packages/install others (breezy, R:mozilla-firefox, RI:firefox, install ubuntu-desktop package again, R:portmap, I:language-package*) * check conffile settings (breezy: /etc/X11/xorg.conf; warty: /etc/modules) * check if {ubuntu,kubuntu,edubuntu}-desktop is installed * ask/change mirrors (breezy) * breezy: install new version of libgtk2.0-0 from hoary-updates, then restart synaptic * reboot The tool need a backported "python-vte" and "python-apt" to work on breezy.