debian upgrade problem

> 3. apt-get dist-upgrade
>
> To understand a bit the difference between an upgrade and a dist-upgrade
> see here:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-apt-get.en.html#s-dist-upgrade

I brought a woody box up to sid the other day, and dist-upgrade doesn't
help with it, you must do the loop break like the error message says (or
install manually like Mike ended up doing). It's because of the g++ 3.x
ABI upgrade, all of pam must upgrade at the same time, so there's no order
for apt to install things in that won't leave the system broken for a
short period of time...

    --Nick