On Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 01:48:09PM +0200, Erwan David wrote: > Le 11/04/2021 à 13:33, Eric S Fraga a écrit : > > On Saturday, 10 Apr 2021 at 13:18, David Wright wrote: > >> "my system (mostly Debian testing)" > > For clarity, it's testing but has a couple of packages from elsewhere > > (MS Teams, Zoom) due to the fun times we are in... For some reason, my > > computer seems to think I am running bullseye/sid (contents of > > /etc/debian-version) although I do try to avoid Debian unstable so not > > sure where the /sid bit comes from. > > > It comes from /etc/debian_version in base-files package and thats'what > the version in Bullseye says. No need to fear anything that's normal for > a computer using testing.
As suggested elsewhere: Testing is currently frozen, relatively few changes happening. If this is a computer you rely on absolutely, you might want to make sure that all the entries in your /etc/apt/sources.list point to bullseye at the moment. Doing this will ensure that as Bullseye is released you get stability. That also means that you will move from Testing -> Stable. As _soon_ as Bullseye is released as stable, Testing -> Bookworm. The brakes will come off and a large amount of packages, changes and fixes that have been held back by the freeze will pour in. For you at the moment, the change would not be material but in as little as a couple of months it could mean a broken system. I updated a system running Buster -> Bullseye yesterday with no particular breakage using apt-get. If you do it the other way, you will potentially be guaranteeing long term stability - talks are going on at the moment to perhaps release Bullseye as early as May. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater >
