On Sb, 18 feb 12, 10:03:45, Bob Proulx wrote: > > > What would happen if I would commented wheezy lines by using a # and > > after that I run 'aptitude update' and 'aptitude safe-upgrade'? > > Nothing different would happen from what you have today. You already > have Sid listed in your sources.list system. If you have upgraded to > Sid packages then you already have a Sid system. Removing the Wheezy > lines will do nothing different than you have today. Or leaving them > in. Other than taking up more memory and running slower because of > the need to process so much more data, leaving those Wheezy lines in > won't matter either. I would take them out just to simplify things. I wouldn't :D > Right about now there are ten people jumping at the chance to correct > me and say, no, that isn't true, Squeeze has package XYZ that was > removed from Sid and Wheezy, and Wheezy has the pre-transition version > of package ABC that was removed from Sid. They will say that they are > really different. Yes, yes, yes to all. They are different release > tracks, have their own repositories. Some individual packages or > transitions of packages will have been added and removed between the > different repositories. Each and every one of those are special cases > that would need to be discussed separately. Which is too much to talk > about in a quick answer so I am going to ignore this for now. Unless I'm misreading your paragraph above you are not mentioning the case where packages are being removed from unstable temporarily, to ease a (very) complicated transition. Something like "unstable users should have testing in their sources.list, period." has been posted a few years ago by a member of the Release Team (Adeodato Simò, if memory serves me) and my reading of -devel and -devel-announce didn't suggest any (major) change in this recommendation. Hmm, maybe I should try to get the Release Team's current opinion on this and suggest a patch for the Debian Reference... Kind regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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