Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list

["Jesús M. Navarro" <jesus.navarro@undominio.net>]

Hi, Tom:

On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote:
> On 09/12/2010 18:46, shirish शिरीष wrote:
> >   I know it probably is still a long road but want to know when should
> > one change from testing to stable so that one is living in squeeze and
> > not go into wheezy.
>
> As others have mentioned, though you might not have seen the replies if
> you weren't CC'd on them, you could change from 'testing' to 'squeeze'
> now as they are currently the same thing. Then when squeeze goes stable
> you could change to 'stable', this will allow you to track the stable
> distribution and it will upgrade to the next stable 'wheezy', when that
> is released.

I wouldn't suggest that as it can deal to unexpected surprises.

Of course, you can do as you see, but in order to track Stable, I always 
suggest doing it by tracking codename changes, so stay with, say, squeeze 
till you know wheezy has come Stable and you are ready for the upgrade, then 
change the codename on your sources and do it.

Cheers.