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[Matthias Klumpp]

Am Di., 30. Juli 2019 um 21:09 Uhr schrieb Jeremiah C. Foster
<jeremiah.foster at puri.sm>:
>
> On Tue, 2019-07-30 at 19:52 +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote:
> > [...]
> > The more severe consequences of going with that (essentially option B
> > from
> > https://lists.puri.sm/pipermail/pureos-project/2019-July/000167.html
> > ) is that we need to hack the user's sources.list somehow in order to
> > support this scenario.
>
> Can we not ask those who want a rolling release to edit
> /etc/apt/sources.list themselves? This is already explained in various
> places:
> https://tracker.pureos.net/w/pureos/software_center/software_sources/

No, that is not the problem here. The problem is all users of green
having only the green suite mentioned in their sources.list, since no
-updates or -security suites exist for a rolling-release distribution
(and that's what PureOS is currently designed for).
So actually, all users of green would have to update their
sources.list to still have security updates, which I really don't
think is possible if they manually do that - we can't reach every user
of green with a blogpost.
(that's why we either need to find a way to do that automatically, or
just keep green rolling and create a new stable suite that existing
users can opt-in instead)

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