On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 08:44:49AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 08:27:18PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
>
> Yes. We know that one.
Do we? Do we really?
Then why do people keep violating it so flagrantly?
> Whoever is mixing suites should have
> read that. And be prepared to cope with some or other degree
> of brokenness.
No. They shouldn't do it. At all!
It's not OK to mix binary ("deb") repositories for stable and anything
newer than stable if your end goal is, and I quote, "Moving from Testing
to Stable + Backports".
If you mix binary repositories, then you are running whichever release
has the highest-numbered packages out of your set of binary repositories.
This means: if you mix binary repositories for stable and testing, you
are running testing. You are NOT running "stable with a bit of testing
here and there". You're running testing. Full stop.
If you try to complicate your life by adding pinning, this does NOT mean
you are running "stable with a bit of testing". No. It means you're
running a BROKEN version of testing. When it comes crashing down around
you, we will continue to tell you to please Don't Break Debian.
> Reminding people of that seems OK, but yelling at them in
> public... hm.
If I don't "yell", they don't listen.
