Re: Keeping stable stable.
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 12:39:15AM -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> On 6/1/2011 6:07 PM, R. Clayton wrote:
> > I'm running squeeze on a system, and I'd like to keep the system on the stable
> > release independent of what the release is called. I changed all non-commented
> > appearances of "squeeze" with "stable" in sources.list; do I need to do
> > anything else? Is this the right approach to take for a perpetually stable
> > system?
>
> Why make such a change now? It will have no effect for the next ~2
> years anyway. You're much better off simply changing sources.list right
> before your next distribution upgrade. This is what Debian recommends,
> oddly enough, and is what the vast majority of Debian Stable users do,
> myself included.
>
+1
Don't forget, even when Wheezy becomes the new Stable, Squeeze will
still be "stable". It'll be called Old Stable and will be supported for
a year. You don't need to be in a rush to upgrade the moment the new
Stable is released.
-Rob
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