Re: where does unstable appear from?
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
> >thanks for your answer.
> >its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
> >testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
> >presenting in there. am i right? is it ok if i will change "testing" to
> >"stratch"?
> >
> No, testing and stretch is currently the same thing. Changing to unstable
> would let you install filezilla (I would actually recommend using sid over
> testing). It's actually very common that package fall in and out of testing,
> there's absolutely nothing strange about that. Packages get removed because
> of bugs, new versions take time to be pushed down from unstable. You were
> just lucky with filezilla, I guess.
>
> Alternatively, adding it to your sources.list and installing it with
> "apt-get -t unstable install filezilla", then removing it from sources.list
> or giving it low priority in /etc/apt/preferences will do the trick (consult
> this: https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences).
>
> Be careful, both of those actions that I suggested, performed without full
> awareness of what you are doing might break your system pretty badly.
You mean your suggestion to install Sid? I agree. Suggesting that
someone run sid just so that they can have the latest package, is IMHO,
very cruel.
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