apt/sources.list - name of Debian mirror?

From: Felixk Karpfen (felixk_at_webone.com.au)
Date: 12/03/04

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    My Debian mirror (mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub) lists "sarge" and "testing"
    as alternatives and supplies the following info:

    stable, or woody - the released Debian 3.0r3.
    proposed-updates - possible updates to Debian 3.0. See the README there.
    testing, or sarge - the development version of the next release.

    Sarge currently asks for the name of a Debian mirror as part of the info
    it uses in its install.

    Is the merit in listing "testing" rather than "sarge" in answer to
    that query? I realise that when Sarge becomes the official release,
    the contents of "testing" and "stable" will, for a brief period, be
    identical.

    I also note that the Debian security updates - to which I subscribe -
    are not present in "testing". Does that matter when using "apt-get" to
    install them?

    Felix Karpfen 

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