Re: testing distribution

["Jordi Carrillo" <jordilinllistes@gmail.com>]

Thanks Mathias,
It is what I was thinking. 
Regards,
Jordi

On 9/7/06, Mathias Brodala <info@noctus.net> wrote:

Hello Jordi.

> I'm using Debian Testing. When Etch is out, will I have to change my
> sources.list?

It depends on how your sources.list looks like.

If you have something like the following:

  deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
                                      ^^^^^^^

then you will automatically receive updates for the next testing version of
Debian. (Whatever its name will be.)

But if you have something like this:

  deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main contrib non-free
                                      ^^^^

you'll always have Etch. You'll have it when it becomes stable and when it
becomes oldstable one day. So you'll leave the testing branch.

Depending on what you want, you should use the appropriate entries in your
sources.list.


Regards, Mathias