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Re: How to migrate from sid to stable?

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Hello,

Reading this, I have a question along these lines: back when we're 
unfrozen, and migration from sid to testing to stable was more linear, I 
encounter the same problem (I was on sid, and wanted to migrate to 
something more stable).  I solved this for myself by pointing my sources 
to testing and waiting (for 15 months or so) for testing to become 
stable (in less than a week now...).

Can anyone comment on the efficacy and pitfalls surrounding this method?

One clear one is that I'm not getting security updates.  Given the 
circumstances, this is not too troubling, as my uptime is 2 hours a week 
(when I back up to the machine in question, else it's off and 
unplugged....).

If what I did was "hijack the thread", please accept my apologies and 
let me know, so I don't do it again....

Cheers!

On 06/13/2017 06:05 AM, Pétùr wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a computer which does not need anymore to be running the unstable
> version. I would like to migrate it to stable at some point.
>
> If I backup the home and rsync it on a new installation of Debian
> stable, I will have problems with the downgrade of softwares settings.
>
> I am not in a hurry and could slowly migrate to stable. But I am not
> sure changing the repositories to stable and wait with no update during
> a while is a good idea.
>
> I could not think of a proper (and somehow automatic) way to do this. Is
> there one?
>
> Pétùr
>

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How to migrate from sid to stable? Pétùr <peturvilj@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 12:10 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-06-13 13:00 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2017-06-13 13:10 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Fungi4All <fungilife@protonmail.com> - 2017-06-13 13:30 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 13:30 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-06-13 14:00 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 15:00 +0200
  Re: How to migrate from sid to stable? Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-06-13 21:40 +0200

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