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combining stable and testing in sources.list

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I mistakenly added two lines with 'testing' to my 'sources.list' file, 
which now looks like this:

    deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch main non-free contrib

    deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates main
    contrib non-free
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates
    main contrib non-free

    deb http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main contrib
    non-free
    deb-src http://debian.osuosl.org/debian/ stretch-updates main
    contrib non-free

    # my bad:
    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib

I have read that it's difficult or impossible to revert to 'stable' once 
'testing' packages have been installed. I have also read that it's not a 
good idea to have both 'stable' and 'testing' repositories in 
'sources.list', so I'm wondering how to proceed. I experimented with 
replacing 'stretch' by 'buster' in the first six lines above (and 
removing the last two lines), but then the system couldn't find the 
stable google-chrome repository in '/etc/apt/sources.list.d'.  I now 
have the uncomfortable feeling that I'm playing with fire.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions about if/how I should edit my 
'sources.list' file!

-Paul

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combining stable and testing in sources.list murtaugh@stat.orst.edu - 2018-06-12 21:40 +0200
  Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2018-06-12 23:40 +0200
  Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2018-06-13 10:20 +0200
    Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-06-13 14:00 +0200
      Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-06-13 14:10 +0200
        Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-06-13 14:10 +0200
          Re: combining stable and testing in sources.list Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2018-06-13 14:20 +0200

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