On 25.06.19 17:48, Michael Stone wrote:
oldoldstable has the value of demonstrating some of what's wrong with
the current system
Can you please explain, i don't get it - maybe i to new at this. For me
file like /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/debian.list:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ oldoldstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ oldoldstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ oldstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable main
contrib non-free
deb-src http://incoming.debian.org/debian-buildd buildd-unstable main
contrib non-free
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ testing-debug main
contrib non-free
deb http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/debian-debug/ unstable-debug main
contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stretch-backports main contrib
non-free
is perfectly fine.
So it is possible for me -- strictly running sid with buildd on _my_
production system -- doing things like:
% apt policy nano
nano:
Installiert: 3.2-3
Installationskandidat: 3.2-3
Versionstabelle:
4.1-1 1
1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 Packages
*** 3.2-3 500
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing/main amd64 Packages
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.7.4-1 500
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable/main amd64 Packages
2.2.6-3 500
500 http://ftp.debian.org/debian oldstable/main amd64 Packages
and so on - i take the older releases only as reference. So for me there
is a use case, i'm not interested in older versions as old or
oldoldstable - and i will never change this file without reason.
Cheers Alf
