Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable?

From	kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable?
Date	2017-10-14 12:40 +0200
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On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:25 AM, Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> wrote:
> Few while ago I tried upgrading to unstable and I could update all my packages
> successfully. Now I'm going to use stable version. I am following only
> stable repository and each time I hit `apt-get dist-upgrade` it
> successfully upgrades few packages.
>
> Is this a safe way to stick with stable?
>

If your idea is to eventually track stable if and when buster becomes
stable, then your approach is fine.

One side note: If you put "stable" in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt will
try to "upgrade" the packages to whatever is the current stable
version. Currently that is Stretch and it will be buster after the
next release etc., If you put "buster" in /etc/apt/sources.list, apt
will try to track the buster release irrespective of whether it is
currently stable or testing.

raju
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What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable? Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-10-07 18:30 +0200
  Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to  unstable? Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-10-07 18:30 +0200
  Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to  unstable? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-10-07 19:40 +0200
    Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to  unstable? Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-10-08 05:10 +0200
      Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to  unstable? Daniel Keast <daniel@kea.st> - 2017-10-08 10:10 +0200
  Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-07 21:00 +0200
    Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to  unstable? Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-10-08 05:10 +0200
      Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable? deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2017-10-08 10:00 +0200
  Re: What happen if I start following stable after upgrading to unstable? kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> - 2017-10-14 12:40 +0200

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