Nicolas François wrote: > On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:03:37PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 02:44:38PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: >>> * Marc Haber [Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:40:45 +0100]: >>>> Experience with adduser shows that no-one besides the maintainers >>>> themselves and their closest environment uses experimental packages. >>> More evidence: >>> http://www.perrier.eu.org/weblog/2005/09/30#experimental-useless >> See this worries me a bit. >> >> I'd love for Debian users to test some more cutting edge versions of >> packages (partly so upstream gets more testers, partly so I can see the >> bits I hate about the new versions and try to get them fixed) but I >> don't want them in testing now until they are properly released as a >> stable series. In fact, I don't really want them in unstable if it >> means that in order to fix bugs which appear in testing I have to revert >> to the stable set of packages in order to get them in. > > How Debian users can know there is a new version in experimental? > There are some messages in debian-devel, or blogs on planet, but not all > users or developers are reading them. > > Is there a command that can display the list of packages I'm using with a > version on experimental higher than the current version on unstable? > `aptitude -t experimental` For some edge cases this will only work if you are currently tracking unstable. I love aptitude :) Travis
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