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Re: where does unstable appear from?

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On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Alex Moonshine wrote:
> On 11/02/2015 12:58 PM, Andrey Rybak wrote:
> >thanks for your answer.
> >its very strange for me that it is not possible to use filezilla in
> >testing. i was using testing brunch in several years and filezilla was
> >presenting in there. am i right? is it ok if i will change "testing" to
> >"stratch"?
> >
> No, testing and stretch is currently the same thing. Changing to unstable
> would let you install filezilla (I would actually recommend using sid over
> testing). It's actually very common that package fall in and out of testing,
> there's absolutely nothing strange about that. Packages get removed because
> of bugs, new versions take time to be pushed down from unstable. You were
> just lucky with filezilla, I guess.
> 
> Alternatively, adding it to your sources.list and installing it with
> "apt-get -t unstable install filezilla", then removing it from sources.list
> or giving it low priority in /etc/apt/preferences will do the trick (consult
> this: https://wiki.debian.org/AptPreferences).
> 
> Be careful, both of those actions that I suggested, performed without full
> awareness of what you are doing  might break your system pretty badly.

You mean your suggestion to install Sid? I agree. Suggesting that
someone run sid just so that they can have the latest package, is IMHO,
very cruel.

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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where does unstable appear from? Andrey Rybak <rybak.andrey@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-02 11:30 +0100
  Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-02 11:40 +0100
    Re: where does unstable appear from? Andrey Rybak <rybak.andrey@yahoo.com> - 2015-11-02 12:10 +0100
      Re: where does unstable appear from? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2015-11-02 12:40 +0100
      Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-02 12:50 +0100
        Re: where does unstable appear from? Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz> - 2015-11-03 05:20 +0100
          Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-03 10:10 +0100
            Re: where does unstable appear from? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-11-03 15:10 +0100
              Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-03 15:50 +0100
                Re: where does unstable appear from? The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-11-03 16:30 +0100
                Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-03 17:00 +0100
                Re: where does unstable appear from? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-11-03 20:50 +0100
                Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-03 21:10 +0100
              Re: where does unstable appear from? Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> - 2015-11-03 16:10 +0100
          Re: where does unstable appear from? Alex Moonshine <moonshine@openmailbox.org> - 2015-11-03 10:20 +0100
  Re: where does unstable appear from? Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2015-11-02 12:00 +0100

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