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Re: Should I enable "testing"

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On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
 
> Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit :

[Good advice snipped]

> > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian <http://deb.debian.org/debian> testing main
> > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian <http://deb.debian.org/debian>
> > testing main
> > ```
> > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good,
> > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I feel
> > like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me.
> 
> Too late := Indeed you now are under testing intead of stable. You will have
> more recent packages and more frequent updates. In general testing works all
> right, but you are not as protected against potential bugs as stable,
> because testing is a repo for testing. And fixes come about 10 days later,
> the time to be accepted and tested in unstable

  deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main

I would consider changing "testing" to "bullseye". That way, when
testing eventually becomes the new stable, you will no longer be using
the testing distribution.

  deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main

Unless you are building (compiling) packages, you could delete this
line.

> > The question is, shall I revert back to "stable"?
> 
> No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing
> now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is impossible (or
> very difficult and unsafe)

Staying on bullseye is not likely to be such a disastrous move.

-- 
Brian.

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Should I enable "testing" "J.Arun Mani" <J.ArunMani@protonmail.com> - 2020-05-09 10:10 +0200
  Re: Should I enable "testing" Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-05-09 10:40 +0200
  Re: Should I enable "testing" Jean-Philippe MENGUAL <jpmengual@debian.org> - 2020-05-09 12:20 +0200
    Re: Should I enable "testing" Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2020-05-09 13:40 +0200
      Re: Should I enable "testing" Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-05-09 18:50 +0200
  Re: Should I enable "testing" Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2020-05-09 14:30 +0200

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