02-09-2013
Debian releases - more or less - every two years a new stable.. After another time there will be no more security upgrades, so you can't run any stable version much longer than 3 years. I wouldn't call that the next ice-age (compared to, say, Windows XP or Centos). That comes with certain advantages (one being that you don't need to upgrade packages all the time, which can be a mess if you run a lot of computers or devices). For the apps one wants newer there are debian-backports. And often it is easy enough to backport a package from testing or stable oneself. The above said: testing and unstable are both reasonably stable.
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sbuild-checkpackages
SBUILD-CHECKPACKAGES(1) Debian sbuild SBUILD-CHECKPACKAGES(1)
NAME
sbuild-checkpackages - check the package list in a sbuild chroot against a reference list
SYNOPSIS
sbuild-checkpackages [-h|--help | -V|--version | -l|--list | -s|--set] CHROOT
DESCRIPTION
sbuild-checkpackages compares the package list in an sbuild chroot (dpkg status file) against a reference list of packages. The differ-
ences between the two lists are displayed, showing the changes to remove and install in order to return the chroot to match the reference
list.
The reference list may be set from the dpkg status file; this must be done initially in order to have a baseline reference for comparison.
The chroot should only include essential and build-essential packages, plus the extra packages that sbuild needs such as fakeroot.
OPTIONS
Actions
-h, --help
Display this manual.
-V, --version
Print version information.
-l, --list
List the differences between the installed packages and the reference file.
-s, --set
Set the reference file from the currently installed package list.
Chroot selection
CHROOT The chroot to use. Note that 'o', 's', 't', 'u' and 'e' may be used as abbreviations for 'oldstable', 'stable', 'testing', 'unsta-
ble' and 'experimental', respectively.
EXAMPLES
To set the reference file in the unstable chroot:
% sbuild-checkpackages unstable --set
To show the differences in the unstable chroot:
% sbuild-checkpackages unstable --list
AUTHORS
Roger Leigh.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>.
SEE ALSO
sbuild(1).
Version 0.63.2 18 Aug 2012 SBUILD-CHECKPACKAGES(1)