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Bug#895624: marked as done (debian-www: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ entreats users to install Testing incorrectly)

Your message dated Tue, 3 Oct 2023 22:59:18 +0200
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has caused the Debian Bug report #895624,
regarding debian-www: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ entreats users to install Testing incorrectly
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Package: debian-www
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The page https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ says: "To install Debian testing, we recommend you use the Buster Alpha 2 release of the installer, after checking its errata."

The general recommended way as I understand it to install testing is just to upgrade the system from a minimal stable install; in my opinion consider removing that section from the website, even with the errata the installer can be broken in ways not listed. Which is fine, if the goal is to test the installer, but as I said, a more foolproof way is likely to just upgrade from a minimal stable. 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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We now recommend the daily builds of the installer.

Sure, you can also upgrade from a stable installation to testing, but
it's easier an more fool proofed for doing a testing installation from scratch.

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