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Author APT sources.list - stable or etch - Whats the difference ?
Axel Werner

2007-12-03, 1:12 pm

/etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib


Is there any difference in the Content of those repositories ? i mean..
isnt ETCH == stable at the moment ? so shouldnt the content be just the
same right now ?


thanks fer help!

Axel
Mark South

2007-12-03, 1:12 pm

On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:29:42 +0100, Axel Werner wrote:

> /etc/apt/sources.list
>
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib
>
> Is there any difference in the Content of those repositories ? i mean..
> isnt ETCH == stable at the moment ? so shouldnt the content be just the
> same right now ?


Yes, they are the same at present, have been the same since the day that
etch became stable, and will remain the same until the day that lenny
takes over the role of stable.

But you can expect a lot of updates on that day if you're tracking stable.

To answer the question in your topic title: stable is always stable. Etch
isn't always stable. It's been testing, now it's stable, one day etch
will be old-stable, and sometime after that it'll be obsolete. (But don't
try to put "obsolete" in sources.list :-)
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