[plug] Debian: no telnet access after stable -> testing upgrade

Brian Tombleson brian at paradigmit.com.au
Fri May 3 16:07:03 WST 2002


> Have upgraded a Debian "stable" box to "testing" using apt-get method by

Just for your interest, I did this at one point too thinking that "testing"
was the level above "stable" and "unstable" was the bleeding-edge versions.
This is *not correct*.

"Unstable" (aka Woody - still?) is the version up from "Stable" (aka
Potato).

Current Mappings:
  Potato => Stable
  Woody => Unstable
  Sid => Testing

On this note, what actually happens in apt when the migration takes place?
If I have a potato system running doing regular, automatic apt-get
udate;apt-get upgrade on "stable" .. when Woody migrates to Stable, will
that update/upgrade be a particularly big one and upgrade the whole lot?  If
not, will woody packages be upgraded but not the kernel/distro?  If not,
will it continue to try to get potato packages that will obviously no longer
be being supported?

Cheers,
Brian.





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