Package: apt Version: 0.3.18 Severity: normal The default sources.list file has lines referring to stable, instead of slink or potato or whatever the current stable release is.
This means that, when potato is declared stable, people, who have lines like deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free in their apt sources.list, will automaticly upgrade to the new stable version if they run apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. This is undesirable for the reasons stated below, and should be changed to: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free If this isn't fixed, people will into trouble because the stable link that pointed to slink, suddenly points to potato on the debian mirrors. While doing security or critical updates is usual for people who run the stable release, a major system upgrade has to be prepared (notify users, schedule downtime, etc). Although fixing this doesn't solve bug #57146, 57146 is a direct consequence of this problem. New archive revamps will result in similar bugs. Proposed fix: change the default /etc/apt/sources.list and the example in /usr/doc/apt/examples such that they don't refer to stable but to the appropriate release, in this case potato (or slink if this fix is backported) -- System Information Debian Release: 2.2 Kernel Version: Linux sushi 2.2.14 #1 Sat Jan 8 15:25:59 CET 2000 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.3-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-9 The GNU stdc++ library
