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On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 06:03:20PM +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 05:26:29PM +0000, Wil wrote:
>> How do I upgrade from Debian stable to Debain testing?
>
>Hi Wil,
>
>Don't - at least not directly.
>
>If your /etc/apt/sources.list says "stable" anywhere in it, you probably
>want to change that to reference "buster" today, anyway. Bullseye - Debian 11 -
>is likely to be released within 8 weeks and will become the new "stable" immediately -
>at whihc point, there will be a huge amount of package churn.
>
>If you want to update to what is _currently_ Debian testing - now is a
>relatively safe time to do so because it's in a state of freeze before it
>is released as Debian 11. Look at the release notes for Bullseye and the
>posts on Debian Planet for "what's new in Bullseye" and update carefully.
>[Change /etc/apt/sources.list to suit: apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade ;
>apt-get autoremove ; apt-get dist-upgrade ; apt-get autoremove is one
>sequence that will get you there.
>
>if you want to upgrade to what will be the new Testing, I'd honestly suggest
>waiting six weeks or so, upgrading to Bullseye as it comes out and _then_
>upgrading to Bookworm.
>
>There's information on Debian codenames and also "Which Debian distribution
>should I use" on the Debian wiki at wiki.debian.org.
>
>In general terms: if you can't handle breakage, which may occasionally last
>for weeks or months, don't run Testing until you are happy troubleshooting
>and dealing with upgrading/holding versions of packages.
>
>The package churn on testing is correspondingly higher and there is no
>particular security support.
>
>Just my €0.02
>
>All the best, as ever
>
>Andy C
>

Thank you for all that you wrote.  I will change the sources.list to use
"bullseye" and then run "apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade; apt-get autoremove ;
apt-get dist-upgrade ; apt-get autoremove".  After doing so the system will be
on current Debian testing and it will become Debian stable within a few weeks.
After that the system will remain on Debian stable and not become Debian testing,
correct?

Wil

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  Re: upgrade to testing john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-06-15 20:00 +0200
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      Re: upgrade to testing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-15 20:30 +0200
      Re: upgrade to testing john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-06-16 08:30 +0200
  Re: upgrade to testing "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-06-15 20:10 +0200
    Re: upgrade to testing Francisco M Neto <fmneto@gmail.com> - 2021-06-16 00:10 +0200
      Re: upgrade to testing "Paul M. Foster" <paulf@quillandmouse.com> - 2021-06-16 00:30 +0200
        Re: upgrade to testing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-16 00:30 +0200
    Re: upgrade to testing Wil <wil@desanti.co.uk> - 2021-06-16 06:50 +0200
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      Re: upgrade to testing Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-06-16 13:30 +0200
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