On 04/17/2015 at 11:41 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 17 April 2015 15:51:23 The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 04/17/2015 at 10:18 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> A valid point. But changing code name reduces the risk of >>> absentmindedly upgrading and then thinking oops. Particularly in >>> the case of the OP, who expected changing Jessie to testing now, >>> to have some impact and be a valid test of the result of tracking >>> testing. >> >> I'm not sure he was. I understood his reluctance to test "for fear >> of causing immediate problems" as being based on the idea that "if >> I converted it wrong, or to the wrong thing, then trying to use the >> result might cause problems" - not on the idea that testing >> currently contains something different from jessie. > > He was discussing changing all his sources to testing in order to > track testing not Jessie. > > He said: > > "Running `aptitude update' with the changes" (from Jessie to testing) > "in place does not produce any output that looks problematice (to > me). But maybe that is not a thorough test?" > > Having the changes in place would make no difference at all at the > moment. So it is not a test at all. It's a test of whether the conversion of the sources.list was done correctly - and of whether the newly listed sources are actually valid, hosting actual repositories. It's not necessarily an exhaustive test of that latter, but it's probably enough for most purposes. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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