I see what you mean but from my point of view it's just knowing you've got Lenny rather than testing which could be wither Lenny or Squeeze over the next few days.... I'm almost certain I've seen other folk recommend your sources list states the name of the release rather than testing, stable etc... Having said that, it's certainly not rocket science to keep track.

Is Lenny still on track to becoming stable this weekend?

I suggest people to read http://www.debian.org/releases/index.en.html

Chapter 6 of the debian faq

Take a walk on the wild side run sid.

If you want to continue running lenny when when it becomes "stable" make sure your sources.list says lenny or when it is released change your sources.list to stable either way will work.

If you are running lenny because you want to run testing, change your sources.list to testing so that when lenny is released you continue to track testing rather than lenny.

Hi Dora,
Yes, it's due tomorrow, Valentine's day but you never know.
Cheers,
jdk

Thank you jdkaye. IMHO better late than never.
Cheers, Dora

It will be ready when it's ready. Patience. I'm sticking with testing.

I fully support this statement. I am running Debian since 2003 (does that make me senior enough to be able to make these kind of statements?) and for servers you should use the name of the version, e.g. Etch or Lenny. You need stability here, not surprises and except the security upgrades there is no need for upgrading a server more than once every two years or so.

For desktop machines Testing is your best choice. The Debian upgrade cycles are --well-- conservative and it is easy to lag one year and a half when using Stable. For Desktop machines that is a problem as you will be often confronted with new hardware or new incompatible software formats which make you wish running the latest applications.

Remember, Debian Unstable is often more stable than many releases of other distros, with Testing you are quite safe.

jlinkels