Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-14 Thread David Wright
On Sun 14 May 2023 at 09:08:00 (+0200), Hans wrote: > As we are only one month away from releasing the actual testing (which is in > freeze state) to stable, I could upgrade now, if I want to. I tried a > dry-run, > and saw i.e. digikam to get being uninstalled and some others. > > Also it tri

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-14 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 09:08:00AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > thanks for all the answers. Yes, I know, mixing both might be causing > troubles. But sometimes I got no choice. > > For example, the NVidie kernel driver can not be compiled on newer kernels > than 5.10.22. Reason is, that

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-14 Thread Hans
Hi folks, thanks for all the answers. Yes, I know, mixing both might be causing troubles. But sometimes I got no choice. For example, the NVidie kernel driver can not be compiled on newer kernels than 5.10.22. Reason is, that in the herader files of the newer kernel package some files are mis

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread The Wanderer
On 2023-05-13 at 05:28, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > there is a question, which is in my mind for many years. > > Is there any reason, why not using oldstable, stable and testing > together? Others have cited reasons why not, and those reasons are valid. Despite that, this (

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:28:24AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Is there any reason, why not using oldstable, stable and testing together? While some maintainers do commit to test and support their packages from "testing" on "stable", the usual case is that this has never

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 13, 2023 at 11:28:24AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > there is a question, which is in my mind for many years. > > Is there any reason, why not using oldstable, stable and testing together? > Yes: wiki.debian.org has https://wiki.debian.o

Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread Hans
Hi folks, there is a question, which is in my mind for many years. Is there any reason, why not using oldstable, stable and testing together? I am asking this, because sometimes I need packages, whcih are no more in testing or stable (for example an older kernel, which is capable to run on my