Re: Apt sources.list
On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 12:10:33AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > On release day, bookworm -> "stable",
>
> So far so good.
>
> > "unstable" -> testing == trixie
>
> Really? I thought there was always a delay for packages to move from
> unstable to testing.
>
Let's try this again because release day is "special" in the sense
that all the links move down.
Release day -1 (with luck, sometime in late May or early June 2023)
"Oldstable" == Buster == Debian 10
"Stable" == Bullseye == Debian 11
"Stable-updates / Stable backports" -> the Bullseye target
"Testing" == Bookworm (== Debian 12) [FROZEN for several months]
"Unstable" == Sid (== Trixie == will be Debian 13)
"Experimental == RC-Buggy" - stuff that's too unstable for Sid / not
targetted for Testing eventually
Release day when someone pushes the magic switch and the symlinks move :)
"Oldoldstable" == Buster == Debian 10
"Oldstable" == Bullseye == Debian 11
"Stable" == Bookworm == Debian 12
"Testing-proposed-updates" is empty because that's been frozen for months
[If there is anything in it, that now becomes stable updates for next
point release for Bookworm]
"Stable backports" for Buster are removed.
"Stable-backports" for Bookworm is created as is a new T-P-U if needed.
"Testing" == "Previous contents of Unstable" (== Trixie / Debian 13)
"Unstable" == Sid == empty /some of the contents of RC-Buggy (some of which will == Debian 14 eventually as Forky)
"Experimental == RC-Buggy"
The moves are instantaneous in one sense: once they're done, then the normal
routine applies and updates intended for Trixie will be placed into Unstable
and then move through downwards from then on.
On release day, essentially Bookworm remains frozen and the codebase doesn't
move again unless getting updates from either debian-security
or stable backports (if that's what people want). No new code goes in at all.
Testing is now an entirely separate distro which should be developing from
now and will be released in ~two years.
Hence the suggestion to ride with Bookworm until release day precisely and
change at that point to Trixie: using the codenames is always preferable
>
> Stefan
>
All the very best, as ever,
Andy
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