On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:03:20PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +0000, Wil wrote:How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing?Hi Wil, Don't - at least not directly. If your /etc/apt/sources.list says "stable" anywhere in it, you probably want to change that to reference "buster" today, anyway. Bullseye - Debian 11 - is likely to be released within 8 weeks and will become the new "stable" immediately - at whihc point, there will be a huge amount of package churn. If you want to update to what is _currently_ Debian testing - now is a relatively safe time to do so because it's in a state of freeze before it is released as Debian 11. Look at the release notes for Bullseye and the posts on Debian Planet for "what's new in Bullseye" and update carefully. [Change /etc/apt/sources.list to suit: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ; apt-get autoremove ; apt-get dist-upgrade ; apt-get autoremove is one sequence that will get you there. if you want to upgrade to what will be the new Testing, I'd honestly suggest waiting six weeks or so, upgrading to Bullseye as it comes out and _then_ upgrading to Bookworm. There's information on Debian codenames and also "Which Debian distribution should I use" on the Debian wiki at wiki.debian.org. In general terms: if you can't handle breakage, which may occasionally last for weeks or months, don't run Testing until you are happy troubleshooting and dealing with upgrading/holding versions of packages. The package churn on testing is correspondingly higher and there is no particular security support. Just my €0.02 All the best, as ever Andy C
Thank you for all that you wrote. I will change the sources.list to use "bullseye" and then run "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade; apt-get autoremove ; apt-get dist-upgrade ; apt-get autoremove". After doing so the system will be on current Debian testing and it will become Debian stable within a few weeks. After that the system will remain on Debian stable and not become Debian testing, correct? Wil
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