Re: How to update Debian 11 source.list to testing?
I will change to testing with all keyword switched to testing because my case is more often needing to use newer version software compared to stable, which also works fine w/t a problem for most of time.
Thanks for all your help, and advice! Appreciate it!
Sep 4, 2021, 09:30 by riveravaldezmail@gmail.com:
> On 9/3/21, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>> On 2021-09-03 at 15:16, Brian wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri 03 Sep 2021 at 13:40:52 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 06:24:31PM +0100, Brian wrote:
>>>>
>>>> (...)
>>>> In the absence of "pinning", using the two lines that The Wanderer
>>>> posted would give you a testing system, with the option to pull in
>>>> packages from stable if needed. It's a viable setup. Sensible.
>>>>
>>> (...)
>>>
>>
>> Absence in testing is the specific reason why I still include that line:
>> in case I need to install a package because I need its functionality,
>> but it's been temporarily removed from testing for whatever reason.
>>
>> That scenario has actually arisen a handful of times over the years, and
>> the rest of the time, having the line included doesn't seem to have done
>> any harm.
>>
>> --
>> The Wanderer
>>
>
> In fact, I'm just right now dealing with kinda situation.
>
> There's this `phwmon.py`[1] which I use with fluxbox to have a couple
> of system monitors at hand, and that depends on some python2 packages.
> I've just made it work, installing manually (# apt-get install packages.deb)
> this packages that I've downloaded from OldStable official archives:
>
> python-psutil
> python-is-python2 (this is in fact in Testing)
> python-numpy
> python-pkg-resources
> python-cairo
> libffi6
> python-gobject-2
> python-gtk2
>
> Therefore, my question:
>
> Is it better to install them as I did, or adding the line in sources.list as
> The Wanderer does?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance.
> Kind regards!
>
> [1] https://gitlab.com/o9000/phwmon
>
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