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



On 10/12/2010 10:04, Jesús M. Navarro wrote:
On Thursday 09 December 2010 21:05:00 Tom Furie wrote:

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.

Why? What's the difference between having stable in the source list and automatically upgrading when the new stable is released - all upgrade issues *should* be worked out by then - versus switching the codename once the new version becomes stable?

Cheers,
Tom


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