On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > I am running Debian Sid and have not had any updates for a couple of days. I > gather this is because of the upcoming release of Buster? The soft freeze started a few days ago, so I would expect a significant decline in the pace of new uploads to unstable. > I have read some > advice on the net that I should change my sources list to point to Buster to > avoid a cascade of updates. Is this advisable ? > That approach is unlikely to work how you expect. In particular, there many packages in unstable which have been removed from buster and so will not be part of the release. If you have had your sources pointed to "sid" and you change them to "buster" there is a possibility you could end up with mix of packages from unstable and testing. In some cases, when a package exists in testing and a newer version in unstable has been kept out of testing purpose, you may end up with the newer buggy version from unstable and that may present problems for you. The two most sensible approaches you can take are: 1) stick with unstable, or, 2) install fresh from a buster beta installer. Which you choose depends on whether or not you eventually want to end up on stable. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
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