> Attilio Cucchieri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I always used up to now the stable release > > of Debian. However, I now got some new > > machines and I would like to install the > > testing "etch" distribution, since it will > > probably become stable soon. I would like > > to know what one has to do after the > > installed testing distribution is promoted to > > stable. Is it enough to do a simple "apt-get update" > > to get everything up to date? Or is it better > > to re-install the machine? > > Hello, > > debian-testing mailing list refers mainly to technical issues on the > testing distribution of Debian, not to user questions properly. Refer to > debian-user@lists.debian.org next time when having such questions. > > Anyway, if you want to remain using the testing distribution, named > Etch, Lenny or whatever, make sure you are pointing your sources file to > the _testing_ branch instead of its alias (like 'etch', right now), > otherwise you may be sticked with stable. If you want to stick with stable after etch promotes to stable, just do it the other way round and keep the codename etch in your sources.list.
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