Upgrading to Lenny

Even though it's been a while since the release of Debian 5.0 Lenny, I've postponed upgrading of my Debian Etch system because upgrading is a big task and has a potential to destabilize or break the system. However, today I took the courage to upgrade my Debian system because I couldn't wait any longer to try the newest thing.

My favorite package manager is the good old dselect. Dselect displayed the following to let me know which packages are to be removed or newly installed:

The following packages will be REMOVED:
  bookmarks* g-wrap* gcj-4.1-base* gij-4.1* gnome-cups-manager*
  gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue* gtk2-engines-smooth* gtkfontsel*
  guile-1.6-dev* guile-g-wrap* lapack3* libbind9-0* libc6-dev*
  libcamel1.2-8* libcdio6* libcrypto++5.2c2a* libdb4.3*
  libdevmapper1.02* libdns22* libebook1.2-5* libecal1.2-6*
  libedata-cal1.2-5* libedataserver1.2-7* libedataserverui1.2-6*
  libeel2-2.14* libegroupwise1.2-10* libffi4* libffi4-dev* libflac7*
  libgail17* libgcj7-0* libglib1.2* libgmime-2.0-2*
  libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a* libgnutls13* libgoffice-1-2*
  libgoffice-1-common* libgpmg1* libgpod0* libgraphite2* libgsl0*
  libgssapi2* libgucharmap4* libgwrap-runtime0*
  libgwrap-runtime0-dev* libicu36* libisc11* libisccc0* libisccfg1*
  libiw28* libldap2* liblwres9* liblzo1* libmozjs0d* libmyspell3c2*
  libnautilus-burn3* libncurses5-dev* libneon25* libnl1-pre6*
  libnss3-0d* libofx3* liboggflac3* libopal-2.2.0* libopencdk8*
  libparted1.7-1* libpci2* libperl5.8* libpt-1.10.0*
  libpt-plugins-alsa* libpt-plugins-v4l2* libreadline5-dev*
  libsnmp9* libstlport4.6c2* libtotem-plparser1* libufsparse*
  libvte4* libwnck18* libxklavier10* libxul-common* libxul0d*
  linux-kernel-headers* modutils* mutella* netcat*
  openoffice.org-filter-so52* refblas3* type1inst* unzoo*
  xlibs-data*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  console-tools cpp-4.3 cups cups-common cupsddk cupsddk-drivers
  dbus-x11 debian-faq elinks-data fastjar freepats gcc-4.3-base
  gcj-4.3-base ghostscript ghostscript-x gij-4.3
  gnome-settings-daemon gossip-common gstreamer0.10-x gthumb-data
  guile-1.8 guile-1.8-libs hal-info hplip hplip-data iso-codes
  java-common java-gcj-compat java-gcj-compat-headless kbd-compat
  libaqbanking-data libaqbanking20 libasyncns0
  libavahi-compat-libdnssd1 libavcodec51 libavformat52 libavutil49
  libbcel-java libbeagle1 libbind9-40 libblas3gf libcairomm-1.0-1
  libcamel1.2-11 libcap2 libcdio7 libconsole libcpufreq0 libcups2
  libcupsimage2 libdatrie0 libdb4.5 libdb4.6 libdevmapper1.02.1
  libdirectfb-1.0-0 libdns45 libebook1.2-9 libecal1.2-7
  libedata-cal1.2-6 libedataserver1.2-9 libedataserverui1.2-8
  libeel2-2.20 libegroupwise1.2-13 libevtlog0 libexempi3 libexiv2-4
  libfaad0 libffi5 libflac8 libfreebob0 libfsplib0 libgadu3
  libgail18 libgcj9-0 libgcj9-0-awt libgcj9-jar libgdata-google1.2-1
  libgdata1.2-1 libgfortran3 libgif4 libglib1.2ldbl
  libglibmm-2.4-1c2a libgmime-2.0-2a libgmp3c2 libgnomekbd-common
  libgnomekbd2 libgnomekbdui2 libgnomevfs2-extra libgnutls26
  libgoffice-0-4 libgoffice-0-common libgpm2 libgpod3 libgs8
  libgsl0ldbl libgsm1 libgssglue1 libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a
  libgtksourceview2.0-0 libgtksourceview2.0-common libgucharmap6
  libgweather-common libgweather1 libgwenhywfar47 libhangul0
  libhesiod0 libhunspell-1.2-0 libhyphen0 libicu38 libieee1284-3
  libiptcdata0 libisc45 libisccc40 libisccfg40 libiw29 libjack0
  libkeyutils1 libktoblzcheck1c2a liblapack3gf libldap-2.4-2
  liblog4j1.2-java liblwres40 libmalaga7 libmeanwhile1 libmozjs1d
  libmpfr1ldbl libmtp7 libmx4j-java libnautilus-burn4 libneon27
  libnet-dbus-perl libnl1 libnss3-1d libntlm0 libobparser21
  libobrender21 libofx4 liboobs-1-4 libopal-2.2 libparted1.8-10
  libpci3 libpcsclite1 libperl5.10 libpixman-1-0 libpoppler-glib3
  libpoppler3 libpostproc51 libpt-1.10.10 libpt-1.10.10-plugins-alsa
  libpt-1.10.10-plugins-v4l2 libpulse0 libpurple0 libqt4-network
  libqtcore4 libqtgui4 librarian0 libregexp-java libruby1.8
  libsamplerate0 libsane libsane-extras libsasl2-modules
  libservlet2.4-java libsgutils1 libsilc-1.1-2 libslab0 libslp1
  libsmbios2 libsnmp15 libsoup2.4-1 libsox-fmt-alsa libsox-fmt-base
  libsox0 libspeexdsp1 libssh2-1 libstlport4.6ldbl
  libsuitesparse-3.1.0 libtalloc1 libtext-iconv-perl libthai-data
  libthai0 libtimedate-perl libtotem-plparser10 libtrackerclient0
  libts-0.0-0 libvoikko1 libvte9 libwavpack1 libwbclient0 libwnck22
  libwpg-0.1-1 libwps-0.1-1 libx86-1 libxcb-render-util0
  libxcb-render0 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxklavier12
  libxml-parser-perl libxml-twig-perl libzephyr3 lp-solve lynx-cur
  lzma mlocate netcat-traditional openoffice.org-base-core
  openoffice.org-filter-mobiledev openoffice.org-officebean
  openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-style-andromeda
  openoffice.org-writer2latex openssl-blacklist pidgin pidgin-data
  pm-utils poppler-utils python-chm python-dbus python-gobject
  python-gtksourceview2 python-imaging python-numpy python2.5
  python2.5-minimal sg3-utils smplayer-themes smplayer-translations
  ssl-cert syslinux-common system-tools-backends ttf-dejavu-core
  ttf-dejavu-extra ttf-liberation ttf-unfonts-core ttf-unfonts-extra
  ttf-unifont x11-apps x11-session-utils x11-utils x11-xfs-utils
  x11-xkb-utils x11-xserver-utils xauth xfonts-unifont xinit
  xserver-xorg-video-mach64 xserver-xorg-video-r128
  xserver-xorg-video-radeon xulrunner-1.9

Now I am going ahead with the upgrade. I hope it goes well.