• Debian LTS

    From John Conover@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jul 29 22:10:01 2024
    I need to use Debian 11 for about an additional 6 months, (its a
    very complicated system.)

    Current Debian 11 LTS:

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free

    deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib
    deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib

    Note that if you already follow security.debian.org (and you
    should), this should mostly be a noop. In other words, Debian LTS
    reuses the same mirror infrastructure as the regular release team,
    it's just a responsibility handover.

    My Debian 11 LTS is current configuration:

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main

    deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main

    Any compatibility advice would greatly appreciated,

    John

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  • From Roberto =?iso-8859-1?Q?C=2E_S=E1nch@21:1/5 to John Conover on Mon Jul 29 22:20:01 2024
    Hi John,

    On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 12:46:43PM -0700, John Conover wrote:

    I need to use Debian 11 for about an additional 6 months, (its a
    very complicated system.)

    Current Debian 11 LTS:

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free

    deb https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib
    deb-src https://deb.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main contrib

    Note that if you already follow security.debian.org (and you
    should), this should mostly be a noop. In other words, Debian LTS
    reuses the same mirror infrastructure as the regular release team,
    it's just a responsibility handover.

    My Debian 11 LTS is current configuration:

    deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bullseye main

    deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main
    deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security bullseye-security main

    Any compatibility advice would greatly appreciated,

    Your question is not clear. Are these two different configurations for
    two different systems? The main "problem" that I see with the second one
    is that it includes the "contrib non-free" components in the first
    archive source (bullseye), but not in the second (bullseye-security).
    While there tend to be very few security fixes for contrib and non-free
    (for a variety of reasons) there are some on occasion. You might
    consider adding "contrib non-free" there just to make sure that you are covered.

    Apart from that, you look like you are configured properly and should be
    able to use bullseye until the end of its LTS support period
    (2026-08-31) [0].

    Regards,

    -Roberto

    [0] https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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