On 2021-08-17 at 15:11, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 17 Aug 2021 at 10:07:18 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 17 August 2021 09:08:43 Greg Wooledge wrote: > >>> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 09:01:32AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>> You literally have the word "oldstable" in your sources.list for >>> your main Debian repository? That's a really unsound practice. >>> It will lead to unexpected release upgrades (or worse, unexpected >>> *failed* release upgrades). >>> >> Now I am doubly confused, according to what I'm looking at in the >> synaptic repo list, I do have that in the first entry, disabled >> now. I sure don't recall adding that as it had to be added since >> Saturday. > > AIUI nothing needed to have been added to your sources list on > Saturday. What did happen, and you appear not to have noticed, is > that the definition of "oldstable" changed under your feet from > "stretch" to "buster". So all of a sudden, you were 2588 packages out > of date for your main repository. What I interpreted Gene's statement above as meaning is something closer to "Although I found an entry in sources.list (as recognized by synaptic's repo list) which specified oldstable, I don't remember adding one; it would have to have been added since Saturday [for reasons not specified], and I certainly don't remember doing it in that time-frame.". The idea of such an entry having been already present does seem to fit the reported observed behaviors better, but I don't want to dispute Gene's reporting of his own remembered actions. -- 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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