Re: Lots of upgrades in debian/amd64 "stable"/sarge

[Niklas Ogren <no@nod.se>]

You probably have testing or unstable packages installed, that got upgraded.
Check with "apt-show-versions" which packages you have installed, preferably
grep away the sarge ones ..

/n

Quoting Soenke von Stamm <sstamm@affili.net>:

> Hi all,
>
> though debian/amd64 sarge is meant to be 'stable' by now, I get a lot of
> updates for my mail server today (dist-upgrade):
>
> 56 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>
> All 57 files are loaded from the sarge tree.
>
> My last dist-upgrade was just last week, so I'm wondering how "stable" the
> archive is today. I feel a little inconvenient with recurring updates to this
> production system though most of the time I don't run into problems with
> them. I wouldn't guess these are security updates.
>
>
> TIA,
>
>       Sönke
>
>
> here are the relevant entries in my sources.list:
> -------------------------
> deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free
> deb http://amd64.debian.net/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
> -------------------------
> and /etc/apt/preferences:
> -------------------------
> Package:  *
> Pin:  release a=stable
> Pin-Priority:  199
>
> Package:  *
> Pin:  release a=testing
> Pin-Priority:  90
>
> Package:  *
> Pin:  release a=unstable
> Pin-Priority:  90
>
> Package:  *
> Pin:  release a=experimental
> Pin-Priority:  9
> -------------------------
>
>
>