Re: If I track testing, what happens when testing becomes stable?

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (04/04/05 16:53), Bruno Hertz wrote:
> John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Andy writes:
> >> So I am thinking of changing my system to track testing instead of
> >> stable. But before I do so, I wanted to check how it will work when the
> >> current testing becomes stable.
> >
> > You will notice no change.  Packages will continue to flow into Testing
> > from Unstable.
> >
> >> When this happens, should I change my apt sources back to point to
> >> stable?  And then apt-get update as usual?
> >
> > Right now the labels Sarge and Testing point to the same thing, while
> > Stable points to the Woody archive.  When the release occurs the effect
> > from your point of view will be that a copy of Testing as it exists at that
> > point in time will be created and the labels Sarge and Stable pointed to
> > it.
> >
> > Thus if you want to continue to track Testing after the release point at
> > Testing and be happy.  If you want to track Testing until the release and
> > then use Sarge (which will be Stable then) point at Sarge.
> 
> As a fairly new Debian user, that was an issue that troubled me too. I.e.
> after install, my sources pointed to testing, but my idea was to eventually
> have the stable sarge release and keep that.
> 
> Then looking at my mirror, i recognized that sarge currently is just a
> (sym)link to testing. So what I thought would happen, and take your mail
> as a confirmation of that, is that once sarge is released, that link will
> change to point at stable instead.
> 
> According to that reasoning, I changed my sources to point to sarge instead of
> testing to accomplish my initial goal, i.e. stay on sarge once it becomes
> stable.
> 
> That right?
Sure is ;)

Regards

Clive

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