Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)

From	Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question)
Date	2017-12-07 20:40 +0100
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 08:17:58PM +0100, John Naggets wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 6:39 PM, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> 
> > No.  Backports have to be specifically requested.
> 
> Aha I get it. So by changing my APT sources.list for backports from
> jessie-backports to stretch-backports all my ZFS packages will simply
> get upgraded to the official/main Debian (non backports) stretch ZFS
> packages?

Yes, assuming the package names are the same and the dependencies are
satisfied.

> Actually moving on the Debian stretch I would not need anymore the
> backports because the ZFS packages are included in stretch. So could I
> just get rid of my backports APT source by deleting my list file
> beforehand and then simply do a dist-upgrade?

My personal recommendation would be to comment out (or delete) the
old backports line(s).  If in the future you find yourself wanting
stretch-backports (from buster) then add the new backports line at
that time.

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Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 18:10 +0100
  Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> - 2017-12-07 18:20 +0100
    Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-07 18:40 +0100
      Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 20:20 +0100
        Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-07 20:30 +0100
        Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-12-07 20:40 +0100
          Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 21:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-12-07 22:00 +0100
    Re: Upgrading to stretch (jessie-backports question) John Naggets <hostingnuggets@gmail.com> - 2017-12-07 18:40 +0100

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