what happens when debian sarge moves to stable?

[Michael Coburn]

Hi everyone,

What's going to happen when the current testing version of debian (aka
sarge) moves into stable?  On September 16, when everyone fires off
apt-get update, apt-get upgrade -- are we all going to end up with libc6
upgrades, perl5.8, mysql 4.0.18, etc?  Or will we need to specifically
drop in new deb entries in sources.list for this to happen?

Why this concerns me -- we maintain a testing machine running the
current debian 3.0 stable which includes the 3.23 series of MySQL, which
is also the same version as what's running on our hosting site's
server.  We don't want to start developing on 4.0 MySQL and then run
production 3.23 -- too much room for irregularities.  What options will
exist after debian moves to 3.1 / sarge / stable?

This strikes me as a significant upgrade for many users of debian, and
I'm surprised that I haven't been able to find much discussion of the
implications of this move -- white papers, FAQs, whatever.  Do they
exist, and I'm looking in the wrong places?

Thanks in advance,
--
michael
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