Upgrading from stable to testing

[Michael Lake <mikel@speleonics.com.au>]

Hi all,

I am interested in upgrading from stable to testing but have a few
qualms... well will it go OK as I spend quite some time getting Debian
stable onto this machine.
I am running Debian stabel on a Ti G4 PowerBook 667MHz with the  radeon
graphics chip.
I am running the benh kernel and the dri trunk of XFree.

ii  xlibmesa-dev-dri-trunk 2002.11.06-2      DRI CVS trunk version of 
Mesa 3D graphics library development files
rc  xlibmesa3              4.1.0-16          XFree86 version of Mesa 3D 
graphics library
ii  xlibmesa3-dri-trunk    2002.10.02-2      DRI CVS trunk version of 
Mesa 3D graphics library
ii  kernel-image-2.4.20-rc1-ben0  custom1.0  Linux kernel binary image 
for version 2.4.20-rc1-ben0.
ii  kernel-package         7.107             Debian Linux kernel package 
build scripts.
ii  kernel-patch-benh      20020304          improved Power Macintosh 
support for the Linux kernel

Having read the various howtos and posts that are around for such an
upgrade it seems all I need to do is:

Current sources.list

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free
deb-src http://mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main
contrib non-free
deb http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk/ ./

In the above comment out the security deb line and replace all instances
of stable with testing.

Then run apt-get update

One debian tip I read at the linuxmafia.com site was
"In order to upgrade crucial packages first, do:
  apt-get install perl libc6 dpkg apt apt-utils debconf
  Whenever you're switching to a new development track, or are
  for any reason expecting a major jump in package versions, the
  foregoing command is a worthwhile precaution."

Then run apt-get -u dist-upgrade
(I notice that some ppl use apt-get -u dist-upgrade)

and if there are problems apt-get -f install to fix any problems (hope I 
dont get any)

One thing that I am not sure about is do I need to anything about the
messages below that I have been getting recently:

# apt-get upgrade
The following packages have been kept back
   xlibmesa-dev-dri-trunk xlibmesa3-dri-trunk
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2  not upgraded.

Is there anything that I should do other than the above?
Any probs that I am likely to encounter?

Thanks
Mike






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