Debian Lenny’s release is getting closer and closer and many people will want to upgrade their Etch servers to Lenny, maybe even before Lenny is declared stable (at RC1 at this time). Even people that don’t want to upgrade to lenny might find some useful information in this post .
One of the greatest advantages of debian over other linux distributions is that we can upgrade our systems live from one version to another (hopefully with minimal damage or impact to the running system), while other distros like rhel will not recommend their users to ever do this but to do a full new installation and migrate over their user data afterwards. Obviously it is a great advantage to be able to perform a live upgrade from one version to the other, and from my experience this has not caused problems, but even so, if this is a production server or just a system you care for and it is not for testing, I would start by making a backup of the system and be prepared in case it will no longer work after this. Just in case… Also you should start by reading the release notes of the new version and look for any incompatibilities (hardware or software) or changed things that could affect your particular setup. Read the rest of this entry »

The Debian Art team is seeking a slogan for the next stable release, Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 “Lenny”.
The poll, can be found at: http://www.debianart.org/contest/lenny-slogan.html so go there and vote for your favorite one.

The choices are:

• The Spiral Strikes Back!
• The Universal Operating System <- my favorite one
• When code matters more than commercials
• Free never looked so good
• The universal operating system never looked so good!
• We build it the right way
• Wanna see new horizons?
• See Freedom Work
• One operating system. Infinite Freedom

The latest MySQL Community Edition release, 5.0.67 will not be included in Debian Lenny as the distribution is frozen meaning no upstream new releases are going to be included into testing before lenny is released. Lenny will ship with MySQL 5.0.51a, while 5.0.67 (or a newer version if that will be the case) will be added to debian testing right after the release.

In the meantime, if you want to use 5.0.67 you can either download the source packages from MySQL or use the packages Norbert Tretkowski (one of the mysql package maintainers) has made available. The deb sources allow you to recompile the package on any architecture you might need it (only amd64 binary packages are provided).

Source: http://tretkowski.de/blog/archives/418-MySQL-5.0.67-not-uploaded-to-Debian.html