Re: old entries in sources.list?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 10:15:21PM +0200, 🦓 wrote:
> Gisteren schreef lists@nodatagrabbing.com:
> > 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.
>
> if that is so safe, then i would just suggest a stable
> file:/etc/apt/sources.list.d/stable.list simply specifying
> deb http://deb.debian.org/ stable main
> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/ stable main
>
Hi,
That's *precisely* why we suggested to people to use the codename as
part of the sources.list files. Bearing in mind we expect to release
Testing as Trixie/Debian 13 in a couple of months ...
If you pin to a codename of "forky" (once trixie releases), you'll get
unstable and testing relating to forky and to stable, oldstable, oldoldstable
as the years go by after release of forky as Debian 14.
If you pin to "stable" as trixie releases, that's fine. Once forky releases
you have a sudden unexpected flag day as *everything* changes underneath you.
Anyone currently running *stable* in their sources.list files for bookworm
is going to have this problem when trixie releases in a couple of months.
It is always an argument whether Debian actually has one stable release or
multiple releases running concurrently - is "Debian" current stable or the
whole thing?
All best, as ever,
Andy Cater
(amacater@debian.org)
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