[SOLVED] Re: old entries in sources.list?

[Hans <hans.ullrich@mail.de>]

> If the packaging system wants to remove a package that came from
> oldstable for dependency reasons, having oldstable sources listed
> won't change that.
> 
> Some old packages (usually versioned libraries) are kept around forever
> and don't cause any problems.  They just sit on your hard drive doing
> nothing, because nothing uses them or depends on them.
> 
> The only time it's advantageous to keep oldstable sources is if you
> need to *add* something from oldstable, typically a library, in order to
> run some compiled binary program that you got from outside of Debian.
> In these cases, you're on your own -- there's no support for it.  Also,
> going back just one release may not be sufficient.  You'll often end
> up trawling through the archive of past packages to find a compatible
> library, after you estimate what year the program was compiled.
> 
> Personally, I'd recommend replacing the oldstable sources with the stable
> sources (but don't use the word "stable" or "oldstable"; use the release
> name; I'm just using generalized language here).  If it turns out later
> that you need to add a package from bookworm on your trixie system, *then*
> you can add bookworm sources (or download the singleton package directly
> from the archive).  Otherwise, there's no need to continue downloading
> lists of packages from multiple releases.  It's just a waste of your
> disk space and bandwidth.

Thank you very much for your very usefull informations. It answers all my 
questions and worries I had. 

So, "best" way is to remove the old entries and use only trixie-related ones.

This litle question/issue is fully solved and can safely be closed.

I am looking forward to trixie and are very excited to it!

Best regards and thaky you all for your help!

Hans