On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 12:05:19PM +0200, Pétùr wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a computer which does not need anymore to be running the unstable > version. I would like to migrate it to stable at some point. > > If I backup the home and rsync it on a new installation of Debian > stable, I will have problems with the downgrade of softwares settings. > > I am not in a hurry and could slowly migrate to stable. But I am not > sure changing the repositories to stable and wait with no update during > a while is a good idea. > > I could not think of a proper (and somehow automatic) way to do this. Is > there one?
Downgrading packages works most of the time for most packages, but it is completely unsupported. Since you are not in a hurry, the safest option would be to follow buster until it becomes stable in mid-2019. A faster option would be to switch to stretch (which will become stable in a few days) right now, and then search and downgrade the few packages where unstable currently contains a more recent version than stretch. No longer following upstream would be urgent in this case, since unstable is expected to get huge changes starting next week. > Pétùr cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed