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The primary goals of these Release Notes are to inform users of major changes in this release of the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, to provide information on how to upgrade safely from the previous release to the current release and finally to inform users of known potential issues they could encounter when upgrading to or using the etch release.
Note that it is impossible to list every known issue and that therefore a selection has been made based on a combination of the expected prevalence and impact of issues.
The most recent version of this document is always available at http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes.
If the version you are reading is more than a month old[1], you might wish to obtain the
latest version.
Please note that we only support and document upgrading from the previous release of Debian (in this case, the upgrade from sarge). If you need to upgrade from older releases, we suggest you read previous editions of the release notes and upgrade to sarge first.
We have attempted to test all the different upgrade steps described in this document and we have also tried to anticipate all the possible issues our users might encounter.
Nevertheless, if you think you have found any bug in this documentation
(incorrect information or information that is missing), please file a bug in
the bug tracking system
against the release-notes package.
We welcome any information from users related to upgrades from sarge to etch.
If you are willing to share information please file a bug in the bug tracking system against the
upgrade-reports package with your results. We request that you
compress any attachments that are included (using gzip).
Please include the following information when submitting your upgrade report:
The status of your package database before and after the upgrade:
dpkg's status database available at
/var/lib/dpkg/status and aptitude's package state
information, available at /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates. You should
have made a backup before the upgrade as described at Back up any data or configuration
information, Section 4.1.1, but you can also find backups of this
information in /var/backups.
Session logs using script, as described in Recording the session, Section
4.5.1.
Your aptitude logs, available at /var/log/aptitude.
Note: you should take some time to review and remove any sensitive and/or confidential information from the logs before including them in a bug report as the information will be published in a public database.
This document is generated using debiandoc-sgml. Sources for the
Release Notes are available in the CVS repository of the Debian
Documentation Project. You can use the web
interface to access its files individually through the web and see
their changes. For more information on how to access the CVS please consult
the Debian Documentation Project
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Release Notes for Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 ("etch"), S/390
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