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Re: old entries in sources.list?



On 2025-06-19 14:40, Hans wrote:
Hi all,

I have a simple question, which aways appear with a new debian-version.

When a new version is official released (let`s say: from bookworm to trixie),
what is best way to edit the sources.list?

Better means, "delete/comment all bookworm entries" or "leave entries for
bookworm and trixie for a while in parallel"?

In the last decade I did the second thing, but maybe I did it wrong in the
last decades.

Thanks for some short hints.

I can't tell you if it is the "best" way to do things, but I have always just deleted the entries associated with the previous release when I upgraded distros. I never have noticed any disadvantages when doing that.

But, maybe you should also consider migrating to *.sources files? The old sources.list file will become deprecated sometime in the future now that Debian has migrated to the new system.

Grx HdV


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