On 25/05/14 13:14, Michele Calgaro wrote:
>> Time to upgrade my main Wheezy install to R14. This went simply,
>> flawlessly and quickly:
>
> Thanks David,
> this is a very useful email.
> I think it will be an excellent starting point for a wiki page about 'how to upgrade to v14.0.0'.
>
> Cheers
>    Michele


Pleased to help, since Debian is my OS of choice and TDE my DE of choice.

Some will disagree. The issue of major upgrades in X has been thrashed 
1001 times. My suggestions are based on experience of maintaining all 
flavours of Debian since Sarge (and the mistakes learned!)

Another observation: If you use another DE (I use also xfce), 
post-upgrade you might want to run "update-alternatives --all" to make 
sure everything is how you want it. Here xfce had taken over a few (e.g. 
x-terminal-emulator). Available choices are mostly obvious and simple to 
adjust.

hal-trinity libqt3-mt were marked as "automatically installed and are no 
longer required" Can someone please confirm they can be safely purged?

Someone else did mention what I forgot: do a backup before any major 
upgrade!

David