what happens when debian sarge moves to stable?

[WK]

I'm wondering about that too.

I need to rebuild my debian stable this weekend, should I install the 
old stable version or the sarge?

Michael Coburn wrote:

> 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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