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deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-proposed-updates contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing-backports contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
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hakerdefo commented Dec 17, 2024

@UncleSpellbinder @technikamateur

A quote from the Debian wiki,

If you are looking for a mirror, use the CDN instead.
Use http://deb.debian.org/ to connect to a CDN that caches packages on a node closest to your geographic and network location.

Source => https://wiki.debian.org/ftp.debian.org

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technikamateur commented Dec 17, 2024 •
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And should security.debian.org also be changed? Like this: security.debian.uchicago.edu?

No. I explicitly wrote non security

So my final testing sources.list should be as follows??

It should/could look like this:

### DEBIAN TESTING ###

deb https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ testing contrib main non-free non-free-firmware

deb https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware
# deb-src https://security.debian.org/debian-security/ testing-security contrib main non-free non-free-firmware

Just try it out by running apt update.

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UncleSpellbinder commented Dec 21, 2024

Thanks, @technikamateur

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speendo commented Aug 17, 2025

I really like this gist and use it as a base for all testing installations.

It would be worth updating it to deb822 (https://manpages.debian.org/unstable/apt/sources.list.5.en.html#DEB822-STYLE_FORMAT).
According to the manpage, the one-line-style format is deprecated and may eventually be removed (not before 2029).

# apt update --audit

already suggests to update to the new format.

# apt modernize-sources

will automatically update to the new format

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