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Re: Debian stable - updates

From Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Debian stable - updates
Date 2021-06-26 13:00 +0200
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On Vi, 25 iun 21, 20:44:51, Francesco Florian wrote:
> 
> You may want to change all instances of 'buster' to 'stable', so that 
> you don't have to bother changing it whenever new version of debian is 
> released as stable.
> This is, if you really want to track 'stable', i.e., automatically 
> switch to the new stable release when it becomes such.
> Just my 2c.

Let me add to the other voices disagreeing with this.

The only potential "benefit" to this is that every two years or so you 
will find yourself in the middle of a partial distribution upgrade[1] 
with no preparation.

It's much better to use the codename instead and subscribe to 
debian-announce (in addition to debian-security-announce, of course). 
When a new release is announced start preparing for the upgrade, you 
have one year to do so.

[1] unless you're one of those still running dist-upgrade for every 
security update, just because `apt-get` doesn't install new packages by 
default. You might want to switch to `apt` instead.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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  Re: Debian stable - updates "D. R. Evans" <doc.evans@gmail.com> - 2021-06-25 14:40 +0200
    Re: Debian stable - updates Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-25 15:10 +0200
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        Re: Debian stable - updates Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-25 18:10 +0200
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        Re: Debian stable - updates Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-25 21:20 +0200
        Re: Debian stable - updates <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-06-25 21:20 +0200
        Re: Debian stable - updates Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-06-25 21:20 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:00 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-06-27 09:50 +0200
              Re: Debian stable - updates The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2021-06-27 13:00 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-26 14:40 +0200
      Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:30 +0200
        Re: Debian stable - updates John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-06-26 15:40 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 16:20 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-06-26 16:50 +0200
          Re: Debian stable - updates Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-06-27 10:10 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates Weaver <weaver@riseup.net> - 2021-06-27 10:20 +0200
            Re: Debian stable - updates John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-06-27 15:10 +0200
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    Re: Debian stable - updates Christian <abelschreck3@freenet.de> - 2021-06-25 15:20 +0200
      Re: Debian stable - updates "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-25 23:20 +0200
    Re: Debian stable - updates Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 13:20 +0200
  Re: Debian stable - updates "T.J. Duchene" <t.j.duchene@gmail.com> - 2021-06-26 00:20 +0200

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