I've got a strange situation here. Up until a few days ago, lsb_release used to say I had sid stable-updates. (Not sure what the stable-updates meant.)
Today after a bit of tinkering with the sources.list, it shows the following.
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root@sayan:~# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)
Release: testing
Codename: buster
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official i386 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-11:11]/ stretch main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 9.5.0 _Stretch_ - Official i386 xfce-CD Binary-1 20180714-11:11]/ stretch main
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates non-free contrib main
# deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
# deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free
Most of the packages on my system currently are from stretch. A few says b1 or b2 at the end of the version(Don't know what it means. Buster perhaps??). A rare few say Unstable.
Should I change the sources.list to stretch? Or keep it as it is? Synaptic says over 40% of the packages are upgradable, probably not surprising given the current sources.list. Should I upgrade them?
P.S. I'm a novice debian user.