On 2016-05-08 at 08:20, Marc Haber wrote: > On Sun, 08 May 2016 07:18:40 -0400, The Wanderer > <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote: > >> Even if running unstable, I would certainly expect that something >> which is known to break certain types of systems this badly would >> be announced at package install time, giving me a chance to cancel >> the install... and the more so considering that people keep talking >> about tracking sid as being a reasonable thing to do, although I >> myself decided years ago from experience that it was a bad idea. > > Tracking sid is a good idea if you can debug and fix breakages. If > you want to be warned for disruptions, use something that we > actually released. I agree, but I have seen people on debian-user advocating tracking sid by preference over testing as a recommended practice, even to the point of arguing against people who recommend otherwise. (Of whom I have seen fewer than I would have expected.) If the people who have been given this advice have been following it, there are people out there who certainly do not appear to be technically competent but who are nonetheless tracking sid. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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