Re: when does one change from testing to stable in sources.list
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Tom Furie wrote:
> On 09/12/2010 22:19, Johannes Wiedersich 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.
>>
>> Ehm, no. If you have 'squeeze' in your /etc/apt/sources.list it will
>> stay at 'squeeze' until you change 'squeeze' to something else, no
>> matter if debian moves beyond wheezy or not. In order to upgrade to
>> 'wheezy' you'd have to edit your /etc/apt/sources.list again (no big
>> deal for me).
>
> Ehm, no, what? Re-read what I typed. Once squeeze is stable, changing
> your sources to stable means you will track stable, whether it is lenny,
> squeeze, wheezy, or whatever is coming after that.
Sorry for the noise. I read your sentence as 'squeeze becomes stable'
not as 'change your apt.sources another time'.
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Johannes
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the
humble reasoning of a single individual.
- - Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
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