Hi
dwainhead:
I guess, by your answer, you have checked your "sources.list" and everything is pointed to "testing" rather than to "Squeeze." If you are still pointed to "Squeeze" you will
only update from Squeeze repos which are now in the "stable" category, right? If you are pointed to "testing" repos, you will be upgrading to the "testing" or "Wheezy" repos. IOW, to make sure you have a rolling-release, keep the repos pointed to Debian Testing (or the LMDE repos when they get updated), not to a specific release name like the Woody/Sarge/Etch/Lenny/Squeeze/Wheezy "Official" releases - otherwise, you'll just be upgrading to the latest updates/upgrades of whatever "Official" release name is listed in your sources.list.
Even if you use
the debian sources.list generator you still have to remove all of the words that say "Wheezy" and type "Testing" in their place if you want to have a rolling-release. It's the same with other distros that I have used - antiX, sidux, Kanotix, Arch, etc. - they don't point to their "Official" release name, they point to their latest repos that have been tweaked
for that particular distro,
but not to a particular release name of that distro, so their distro will be constantly upgrading
with Debian Testing or Sid (or Arch) instead of
being stuck into one particular release, (which will eventually become stale and then be called legacy, backported etc.) - that's what makes it a rolling-release. To prove my point, just try installing an old Woody or Sarge 'stable' on a small partition, don't change the repos, and then try to update/upgrade/dist-upgrade
You will probably end up doing a lot of Googling to find backports that will bring it up to somewhere close to today's distros -
IF you can even find some backports!
If you're happy with the Squeeze repos, you've most likely got a very stable LMDE, and will probably not have any problems until, like Woody/Sarge/Etch, etc., many of the updates/upgrades are no longer available because everyone else, (Debian//Mepis/Ubuntu/LMDE), has moved on - I prefer to have the rolling-release as outlined by the devs, so until they get the MUD updated after they roll out LM13, I can just use the Debian Testing repos instead of the LMDE repos to keep it updated - that's just one of the positives of using Linux instead of a proprietary OS. I wish you great success with
your LMDE OS of choice, it'll be set up the way
you want it, it's not set up according to someone else's idea of what you should-have/need-to-have/have-to-have (including me :wink)
I just don't like to have to reinstall all the time like Mepis, Ubuntus, DebianStable, and other distros do, it's easier for me to just do an update/upgrade, but some people swear by the "every-six-months" install/upgrade, they hate the idea of a rolling release, because they might miss something. I don't care about missing something as long as my OS works the way I want it to for as long as possible without having to constantly reinstall! This is the great thing about running one of the Linux distros or one of the BSDs instead of M$ & Mac, you can have whatever you want to have for an OS, because you can customize it to YOUR way, and not to the M$ or Mac way - it's better than McD's (or is that Burger King or Wendy's?)