Re: 5.23 starting move to testing
On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:37:14 +0200 (CEST)
Borden <borden_c@tutanota.com> wrote:
> 17 Oct 2021, 07:16 by brad@fineby.me.uk:
> > Taking note of the thread regarding updating to 5.23 in Sid, I'll be
> > holding off for a few days until migration to testing is complete.
> >
> I'm sure this has been answered before, but this seems to be a
> perennial issue wherever there's a major upgrade. Since Testing is
> supposed to be free of known system-breaking errors, why can't the
> packages be held back until the it's all ready?
>
This not only has been answered before in general -- it has been
effectively discussed on this very list, only last week.
As a user, you can use "apt upgrade" or "aptitude safe-upgrade". With
either of these, you will not get half-system updates. If the whole
upgrade is ready, you'll get it; if it isn't, you will get suggestions
to either keep older versions of packages with updates, or drop the
not-yet-updated packages. Then, you should choose what to do according
to your taste and the selection of not-yet-updated packages.
Asking for any non-stable flavor to act like stable is making the
packagers' work harder, and IMO as a grateful user who is not involved
in packaging, that is completely uncalled for.
Hope this helps,
Shai.
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