On 07/06/11 14:05, David Kalnischkies wrote:
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Matthew Vernon<matthew@debian.org> wrote:For most users, most of the time, mixing symbolic (stable, unstable) and code-names (lenny, squeeze) in sources.list is a mistake, and will lead to trouble.In which way? You are talking about pain, but not which one…
The case I saw today was someone with "lenny" for their main mirror, and "stable/updates" for security.d.o, which resulted in the user getting their system into a state such that they couldn't install some packages.
As to non-Debian uses, surely these could be configured by a particular distribution (or the "I know what I'm doing flag" set to bypass these checks)?
Regards, Matthew