Re: silly testing/sid question
On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 11:46:33AM +0800, Alwyn Schoeman wrote:
> I was wondering, for those of us using testing and unstable in our
> sources.list files? When woody goes from frozen to stable, will sid
> being the current unstable just suddenly become testing? So if you keep
> your entries at 'testing' you will be updated to the files that was in
> 'unstable' just before woody became stable?
Sid is always unstable:
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sid
The entries that are in unstable will just trickle into the new testing
just like they normally do (but now isn't normally).
> If so, is there any issues with not having a dist-upgrade?
If you keep your sources.list at testing, you will need a dist-upgrade
every once in a while. An example from unstable: the package dictd was
split into 2 packages (dictd && dictzip), and dictd now depends upon
dictzip. The only way for the package dictd can upgrade to the new
version is with a dist-upgrade to install the new package.
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