stevesr0
(See update below my original response – if interested <g>.)
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your comments.
I agree completely with your approach.
I am running Sid on my oldest computer, (old) stable on my newest and (almost out of date) antiX17 on my middle one.
The Sid install is for fun and to learn from. It happens to work delightfully in spite of my amateurish mishandling of things like repositories.
I am taking anticapitalista’s recommendations and will see what changes in my available packages.
I do believe that there are some other newbies on the forum who sometimes benefit from discussion of elementary problems that people like me run into.
Hi anticapitalista,
Thanks for confirming recommendations and nice to know that the latest version of elogind and associated packages is present in sid repositories.
stevesr0
P.S. I looked up the security package question and found the debian security FAQ which explained that the developer is responsible for managing security issues in all Sid/unstable packages. That is why the security team doesn’t maintain a security repository for Sid/unstable.
stevesr0
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Update – post changes to lists, no obvious problems. Change in packages listed by aptitude was minimal (7 fewer in the uninstalled out of 76457, and additional 25 new packages).
More importantly, system works (at least) as well as before.
Only residual academic question is the purpose of two list files which also reference Sid/unstable for debian and antix ending in .dpkg.old. The antix one included contrib which is not present in antix.list itself. I left both of these active.
stevesr0
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