Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports

From	Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports
Date	2021-08-17 02:30 +0200
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On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 03:07:06PM -0400, songbird wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> ...
> >> deb     http://deb.debian.org/debian/   experimental main contrib non-free
> >> deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/   experimental main contrib non-free
> >
> > And this is just stupid.  Remove this immediately.
> 
>   some of us don't mind trying out more recent versions of
> some packages:

You CANNOT install binary packages from experimental on stable safely.
It's nonsensical.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

Experimental may be mixed with UNSTABLE if you are brave AND clueful.

It may NOT be mixed with stable.

I don't know how you can possibly think otherwise.

https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

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Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-08-16 11:20 +0200
  Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-08-16 12:40 +0200
  Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-16 13:30 +0200
    Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-08-16 14:30 +0200
      Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-16 14:40 +0200
    Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-08-17 02:00 +0200
      Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-17 02:30 +0200
        Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-17 08:50 +0200
          Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-17 13:40 +0200
        Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-08-17 15:10 +0200
          Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-08-17 16:50 +0200
            Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-08-17 17:30 +0200
              Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-19 05:10 +0200
  Re: Moving from Testing to Stable + Backports Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 11:00 +0200

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