Comments on: How to enable testing and unstable repository on Debian

By: Concerned Debian User

Concerned Debian User — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 14:22:16 +0000

Hello,
It is not recommended to mix testing repos with unstable. If someone wants unstable, they should only use the unstable repo.

By: João Milheiro

João Milheiro — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:18:45 +0000

In reply to João Milheiro. Thank you for your great tutorial.

By: João Milheiro

João Milheiro — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 11:17:04 +0000

I found out that you should not use priority 500 and above. Keep that priority for the system stable branch.
My preferences file:

Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 450

Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 425

Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 400

With this, the other branches are used only when asked. Ex: “apt-get -t testing install apache”

Can anyone confirme this?

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 07 May 2017 19:04:42 +0000

Thank you for this amazing tutorial!!!! Michael

By: Harmo

Harmo — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:06:00 +0000

Thanks man, you made my day.

By: decko890

decko890 — Sat, 10 Jan 2015 20:42:00 +0000

on the step

2. Do some apt pinning – Important !

i tried to call testing jessie and so on. My question what will happen once jessie is stable. does it matter?

By: Sergio

Sergio — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 03:31:00 +0000

Thank you for a great advice!!! Helped a lot!

By: jj

jj — Sat, 06 Sep 2014 14:08:00 +0000

thx gr8 help

By: herbie643

herbie643 — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 23:29:00 +0000

Where did you get that gorgeous image for Debian? Boy would I love to have that on my desktop.
I currently run SID and have been for months with virtually no errors. Of course you have to be careful with the upgrades by paying attention. Once apt-list-bugs stopped working. I figured it out but still not for the novice. It was fixed in 1 day.

By: Hohlraum

Hohlraum — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 04:22:00 +0000

You say backports when the example you used earlier in the article was apache 2.4 which isn’t in backports ;)