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

Andrew Howell andrew at belzedar.leederville.it.net.au
Mon May 6 13:33:37 WST 2002


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 04:07:03PM +0800, Brian Tombleson wrote:
> 
> > 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?

This is wrong.

Sid is always unstable.

Testing is the distribution that will become the next stable relase.

Testing is currently woody.

Andrew

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