Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

[Stephen Dewey <stepheneliotdewey@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>> I am having trouble with the libfaac0 package, and have been hoping to
>> upgrade it the hope that a bug fix has been released for my problem.
>> The libfaac0 package requires libc6 >= 2.7-1 but etch only has
>> 2.3.6.ds1-13etch8, so I've added a testing distribution to my sources
>> list.
>>
> [snip]
>>
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Sure.  Don't mix Stable and Testing.  This close to Stable becoming
> Oldstable, Etch and Lenny have very different dependencies.
>

Ok. I am OK with moving to Lenny. Would it then be OK for me to simply
upgrade to Lenny via the below?

apt-get update
apt-get -t stable upgrade
apt-get -t stable dist-upgrade
apt-get -t testing upgrade
apt-get -t testing dist-upgrade

(I am getting this from
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html   - I
assume based on my reading of the apt_preferences 5 man page that this
will move me in the correct order.)

Thanks...
Stephen