Dave Sherohman wrote:
I feel quite embarrassed in reading this above. I am still on Lenny, and wishes to remain that way for as long as possible, hopefully until I buy a new computer.Should I be specifying lenny instead of stable,Yes, if you want to stay on lenny until further notice. Personally, I always use the version names, so I'm not 100% certain that it's still around, but I believe you could also use old-stable to continue tracking lenny (at least until wheeze comes out, at which point old-stable will become squeeze).or am I already too late to do that?If you've already done any updates which have installed packages from squeeze, then it's too late with respect to those packages (apt won't automatically downgrade the squeeze versions back to a lenny version), but, aside from that, changing from stable to lenny shouldn't cause any problems.
My 'sources.list' has a few calls for 'stable', and some calls for 'lenny'. How am I to know for sure whether or not I have already installed packages from Squeeze ? Last package I installed was 'xine-ui' and, not later than 2-3 days ago, I have installed libdvdcss2 and w32codecs. How am I to know whether it is too late to changes calls to "stable" to calls to "Lenny" ?
I thought that Squeeze had not yet been acknowledged as 'stable', but, obviously, I failed to keep informed in due time.
Below is the content of my source.list: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ testing main contrib non-free Thanks in advance for your advices