In <[🔎] 20110212102917.GK18225@think.homelan>, Andrei Popescu wrote: >On Vi, 11 feb 11, 15:33:30, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> The testing repositories need not be used either. They are mostly for >> when the version in testing differs from the version in unstable, the >> unstable version can't or shouldn't be force-migrated, and the testing >> version needs updated. In this uncommon case, a version that falls >> between the one in testing and unstable is uploaded to >> testing-proposed-updates and can be migrated. > >As far as I understand sid/unstable users should always have testing in >their sources.lists, since the Release Managers sometimes remove >packages from unstable to help testing migration. I can search for the >exact reference in case someone is interested. True enough. Sometimes packages are uninstallable due to missing dependencies in unstable. This is much rarer with testing enabled, since the automatic processes that do most of the testing management try to prevent any package from becoming uninstallable. Unless you are doing something to alter the default APT priorities, a system with testing and unstable in sources.list will get the vast majority of packages from unstable. They should also get -security, -updates, -proposed- updates, and -backports style upgrades from the direct uploads to unstable, so the testing versions of those repositories are unneeded. It is possible, but uncommon, that you might get a package from testing, be unable to upgrade to the package in unstable, but be able to fix a security issue due to an upgrade in testing-security or testing-proposed-updates; having the testing and testing-* repositories listed won't do any harm, except for making apt-get update take a bit longer. Depending on how/if/when CUT is implemented, the testing-* repositories might get a lot more use, but right now they aren't usually populated with much. most upgrades to testing go through unstable first. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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