On Wed, Nov 27, 2024 at 11:59:05PM +0100, Francesco Poli wrote: >... > Please also note that VERSION_CODENAME is not necessarily the correct > value: for instance, one could have a system where base-files is from > Debian stable, but a great number of packages are from Debian testing > (in that case the sysadmin could decide that the most relevant release > is "testing")... > Moreover, VERSION_CODENAME does not distinguish between systems > (mainly) running Debian testing, possibly with some packages from > Debian unstable, and systems running Debian unstable. >...
These are actually very good points. apt knows what release a package is from, that's also required for pinning. I don't know apt internals, I would guess there is some way to get apt to tell you the release it downloaded the package from? cu Adrian
