Re: How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 10:40:32 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:

[...]

> Are you sure about that last part?
> 
> I have been running with (e.g.)
> 
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
> 
> for over a decade, and while there have been some problems, I think
> they've been basically the same ones I'd have seen from running testing
> alone; none of them have seemed terribly difficult to resolve, either.
> (At least not by my standards, although I'll admit that I may not be the
> best or most representative example.)
> 
> I don't particularly consider this mixing releases; it's more tracking
> testing, while still keeping available any packages which were in stable
> but have been removed from testing.
> 
> IMO, if you're going to track testing at all on a production computer
> (as opposed to, well, for the purpose of actually *testing the upcoming
> release*), it only makes sense to also include stable; there's too much
> chance of an important package being (temporarily or permanently)
> unavailable, otherwise.

Surely - if you have a package installed from a previous release,
it does not get removed simply because testing does not have it?
It looks to me that the first line in sources.list does not help
in this situation.

-- 
Brian.