On 03/09/2021 11:40, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2021-09-03 at 10:17, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 04:11:49PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote:
If you change all instances of bullseye -> testing, then you are not
mixing. Go ahead with that, modulo the standard caveats associated
with running testing. The problem would come if you tried to include
both bullseye *and* testing sources in your sources.list. Then you
might create very difficult to resolve problems.
Are you sure about that last part?
I have been running with (e.g.)
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
for over a decade, and while there have been some problems, I think
they've been basically the same ones I'd have seen from running testing
alone; none of them have seemed terribly difficult to resolve, either.
(At least not by my standards, although I'll admit that I may not be the
best or most representative example.)
I don't particularly consider this mixing releases; it's more tracking
testing, while still keeping available any packages which were in stable
but have been removed from testing.
IMO, if you're going to track testing at all on a production computer
(as opposed to, well, for the purpose of actually *testing the upcoming
release*), it only makes sense to also include stable; there's too much
chance of an important package being (temporarily or permanently)
unavailable, otherwise.
But there's a chance that the version in stable is not installable
anymore because it depends on packages that have been upgraded on
testing and are incompatible with stable.
That said, I agree with you that there's a bit of exaggeration about
mixing releases. Sure, it's not something to be recommended to a
beginner or someone who's used to just clicking "Next >" to
install/upgrade software, but provided one knows what they are doing and
are careful when running apt-get (or equivalents), it's certainly
possible and won't lead to guaranteed breakage.
--
Goes (Went) over like a lead balloon.
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
edua...@kalinowski.com.br
