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Re: Debian Sid updates

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On 2/23/19 10:05 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 09:44:55AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote:
>> I am running Debian Sid and have not had any updates for a couple of days. I
>> gather this is because of the upcoming release of Buster?
> 
> The soft freeze started a few days ago, so I would expect a significant
> decline in the pace of new uploads to unstable.
> 
>> I have read some
>> advice on the net that I should change my sources list to point to Buster to
>> avoid a cascade of updates. Is this advisable ?
>>
> That approach is unlikely to work how you expect.  In particular, there
> many packages in unstable which have been removed from buster and so
> will not be part of the release.  If you have had your sources pointed
> to "sid" and you change them to "buster" there is a possibility you
> could end up with mix of packages from unstable and testing.  In some
> cases, when a package exists in testing and a newer version in unstable
> has been kept out of testing purpose, you may end up with the newer
> buggy version from unstable and that may present problems for you.
> 
> The two most sensible approaches you can take are: 1) stick with
> unstable, or, 2) install fresh from a buster beta installer.  Which you
> choose depends on whether or not you eventually want to end up on
> stable.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Roberto
> 


   Thanks for the info. I'll stick with unstable for the moment.


-- 
Frank McCormick

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  Re: Debian Sid updates Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-02-23 16:10 +0100
    Re: Debian Sid updates John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-02-23 18:30 +0100
    Re: Debian Sid updates Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2019-02-23 21:40 +0100
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