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Re: [trinity-users] Advisability of upgrading

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:51:12 -0900

On Monday 27 February 2012 3:39:07 pm ant wrote:
> I'm running (from lsb-release -a):
> Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.2 (squeeze)
> Release:        6.0.2
> Codename:       squeeze
>
> and Trinity 3.5.12
>
> I'm thinking of changing to Debian testing (aka wheezy at the moment).
>
> my sources.list contains:
> deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian
> squeeze main
> deb-src http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian
> squeeze main
> deb
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian
> squeeze main
> deb-src
> http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/debian
> squeeze main
>
> Questions:
> 1 Can I change to 'testing' (wheezy) and still use the existing trinity
> packages for 'squeeze', as above? I am, at present, quite happy with
> Trinity 3.5.12
> 2 Are there any 'unexpected consequences' of doing this?
> 3 If there are problems with this approach, what is a better way?
>
> cheers
>
> ant

Some expected consequences: TDE is compiled for Squeeze, does not work well with 
Wheezy. The next releseof TDe will have Wheezy support.

You do not mention any compelling reasons/need to upgrade to Wheezy, personally I 
like Debian stable (up to v. 6.04), esp with regards to running TDE.
-- 
Peace,

Greg