Debian Squeeze Release set for Feb 5th or 6th

pljvaldez · 01-18-2011, 06:55 PM

For any of us who still follow stable:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel.../msg00003.html

jlinkels · 01-18-2011, 07:21 PM

Good news... and jeez... how outdated are my Etch systems now.

jlinkels

TobiSGD · 01-19-2011, 05:11 AM

Since your Etch systems get no updates since February 2010, I would think that it is a good time to upgrade.
Regarding the release of Squeeze, we Sid users simply don't care.

jlinkels · 01-19-2011, 05:52 AM

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Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Since your Etch systems get no updates since February 2010, I would think that it is a good time to upgrade.

Definitely. My only problem is that I hate to do dist-upgrades on live production servers.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

Regarding the release of Squeeze, we Sid users simply don't care.

From one of your other posts I have learned you also are not shy of Experimental

So Stable is waaaaay down the line for you.

jlinkels

TobiSGD · 01-19-2011, 06:04 AM

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Originally Posted by jlinkels

So Stable is waaaaay down the line for you.

jlinkels

Not really, in one of my VMs I have an installation of Lenny with apt-cacher-ng. I install Debian a lot in many VMs to make experiments, and apt-cacher-ng is really a good tool for that, it speeds up things really. Hmm, maybe I should upgrade that to Squeeze.

jdkaye · 01-20-2011, 07:26 AM

Thanks for that. It's good news for us Testing users since we'll start getting feature updates again (not just bug-fixes) after the freeze ends.

ciao,
jdk

EDDY1 · 01-20-2011, 07:33 PM

I have squeeze presently, so does that mean that I have to make changes to sources.list, to keep it as squeeze?
I ask that bcause I like the way my systems are running.
Also does that move sid to the testing position?

pljvaldez · 01-20-2011, 07:54 PM

Check your sources.list file. If it says "testing" you will track the testing branch (which will be codenamed "wheezy"). If you want to stick with Squeeze when it transitions, just make sure it says "squeeze" instead of "testing".

Unstable is always labeled "sid". But packages from "sid" will start transitioning immediately to the testing branch, which will adopt the codename "wheezy".

See more about debian branches here.

EDDY1 · 01-20-2011, 08:13 PM

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Check your sources.list file. If it says "testing" you will track the testing branch (which will be codenamed "wheezy"). If you want to stick with Squeeze when it transitions, just make sure it says "squeeze" instead of "testing".

Mine says squeeze, the only place testing is listed is on commented out cd.

rivenathos · 02-01-2011, 10:35 AM

Even though I have been running Squeeze for almost a year now, I am actually looking forward to the official release.

eveningsky339 · 02-01-2011, 10:45 AM

I've been running squeeze for a while, but I'm still getting excited.

Once it's stable, I'll hook it up to the backports repository, maybe run it until the next "testing" is frozen. Nothing like rock-solid Debian stable-- no fear of the broken updates or incomplete kernels that shipped with that distribution that starts with a "U".

I feel kinda sorry for the other guys. Must be boring having a release party every six months.

Wonder how many Lenny holdouts we will have?