Re: Aptitude updating Sarge to Etch?

On Mon, May 28, 2007 at 11:21:10PM +0200, dcorking <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
Since "Etch" became "stable" on April 8, is it possible that aptitude
updated many packages from Sarge to Etch for Jan?

It's possible.

The first time I read /usr/share/doc/packages/aptitude/README, I understood
(probably incorrectly) that aptitude should not do this.

aptitude will do what you tell it to do. It reads
/etc/apt/sources.list to decide where it should look for packages and
upgrades. If you have a deb line like:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main

then aptitude will always upgrade you to the current "stable" release,
whatever it is; when a new release is put out, aptitude will see a whole
bunch of new versions of packages and try to get you in sync with them.

In general, you should use the name of the release instead, e.g.

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ sarge main

Daniel


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