Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 5/9/20 4:30 AM, Brian wrote: On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : No, would be impossible and catastrophic. Either re-install, or try testing now, could be good for you. Reverting a such big upgrade is impossi

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Sven Hartge
J.Arun Mani wrote: > The question is, shall I revert back to "stable"? At this point, the only sure way to downgrade to stable is via a reinstall, because downgrading a package is not supported (in general). Why is this? While many programs don't store anything on disk that is version dependen

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 May 2020 at 12:12:08 +0200, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: > Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : [Good advice snipped] > > deb http://deb.debian.org/debian testing main > > deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian > > te

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Jean-Philippe MENGUAL
Le 09/05/2020 à 09:44, J.Arun Mani a écrit : Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debi

Re: Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 09 mai 20, 07:44:43, J.Arun Mani wrote: > ``` > Then I got some 1 GB of updates and I installed those. So far so good, > but now I'm having a rest-less heart that I did something wrong. I > feel like I should have stayed in "stable". This now troubles me. > The question is, shall I revert

Should I enable "testing"

2020-05-09 Thread J.Arun Mani
Hi Out of some curiosity, I enabled "testing" repo last night. So I my /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this: ``` # See https://wiki.debian.org/SourcesList for more information. deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster main deb http://deb.debian.org