> > DO NOT add a "deb" line for unstable! > > > > I will keep repeating that as many times as it takes. Because it's > > freaking IMPORTANT. > > Just a hint: it'd be more empowering for your interlocutors if you > didn't just tell "don't do that" but rather what happens if they > do (my guess is that you're hinting at the danger to actually install > a binary package from unstable by accident -- but I can only guess).
My first message was quite polite. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/06/msg00426.html My second message went into details about precisely *why* one does not do this dangerous thing, but I was already pushed into attack mode, because my initial polite message was treated with venom and scorn. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/06/msg00429.html So, maybe I should have done a dry second attempt to educate the offending person, rather than responding to the venom and scorn in kind. But more likely, a second polite message would just have been brushed off AGAIN. P.S. Do not add a "deb" source for unstable when building backports. It's unnecessary, it's not part of the instructions, and it leaves your system poised to become a FrankenDebian, a nightmare, a mess, a disaster, an unsupportable broken heap of bytes that can only be fixed by a full reinstall.
