On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 09:05:54AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 06:55:12AM -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2022 09:47:39 +0200 > > Hogren <hog...@iiiha.com> wrote: > > > > > RUN echo 'deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main' > > > > /etc/apt/sources.list > > > > I haven't yet read the entire email, but this sticks out like a sore > > thumb. It is almost certainly not what you want. This completely > > obliterates your entire /etc/apt/sources.list, replacing it with a > > single line. For one thing, you lose any reference to the security repo. > > To be fair, there *isn't* a security repository for testing. Well, > technically there is one, but it hasn't been used in years. It's empty. > There's nothing in it. >
There's another problem: if you pin to stable or testing, then you get an unpleasant shock when the next iteration of stable is released and there are suddenly hundreds of updates. The whole reason that codenames were brought into Debian was because someone released a version of Debian that was not yet ready as "Debian 1.0" on their CD set. Debian never released a 1.0 and instead went from 0.97 to 1.1. if you pin to a release name, then you don't have a flag day when everything changes. If you *really* want to pin to testing - with no security support - you can. The other option is to pin to bookworm which won't change when it becomes stable/oldstable or whatever. Otherwise, when bookworm gets released, testing magically becomes trixie. Hope this helps, as ever, Andy Cater
