Re: Why does Debian have code names for releases?
On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 08:51:07AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 27/06/2023 à 05:06, Greg Wooledge a écrit :
> >
> > A lot of people who run stable releases use automatic upgrades. This
> > is a thing that will attempt to run "apt update" and "apt upgrade"
> > automatically for you in the background.
> >
> > If you use the "stable" label in your source.list file, and if you also
> > use automatic upgrades, there is an extremely high chance that your
> > system will perform a *partial* release upgrade at some random time when
> > you are not expecting it, and that this will leave your system in a
> > bad state.
> >
> So no, the worst you'll have is that it wil stop upgrading, because you'll
> get "stable release changed it's Codename from bullseye to bookworm do you
> accept ?"
>
> And it must be manually answered.
Nope. That is not a thing that happens when you go from one stable
release to the next.
That only occurs if you follow "testing". Or if you followed "bookworm"
for a few weeks leading up to its release, while it was still testing.
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