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Re: End time for Wheezy?

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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 11:27:27 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> Has wheezy been replaced by jessie yet?
> If not, does anybody know when the change-over will happen?

Debian does not work the way you seem to be thinking. Jessie has been 
released - it IS the new stable. Wheezy will continue to be supported as 
'old stable' for some time.

> 
> As a subsidiary question, can I make the changeover by editing /etc/apt/
> sources.list by simply replacing 'wheezy' by 'jessie' or 'stable' and
> doing a normal package update or is there something else I should do,
> equivalent to running Fedora's fedup process?

You probably would not want to change  'wheezy' to 'stable' - because 
when a new stable is released it would be automatically installed when 
you did updates. I always recommend waiting a while before upgrading. In 
theory, changing to 'jessie' then doing 'apt-get update' 'apt-get 
upgrade' 'apt-get dist-upgrade' should complete the upgrade for you but, 
as you've been advised, it's always best to make a backup (at least of 
'essential' data) first.

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Re: End time for Wheezy? ray carter <ray@zianet.com> - 2015-07-10 15:59 +0000
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