Unstable vs. Stable

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@unm.edu>]

On 19 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote:

> jlarkin@aij.st.hmc.edu (John T. Larkin) writes:
> 
> > This was bad; everything linked with the x libraries couldn't run
> > since they couldn't find the libraries.  They had installed a bunch of
> > X packages, so one of the packages should have been responsable for making 
> > sure that this line was added to /etc/ld.so.conf, correct?
> 
> Yes, this has been fixed in unstable.

Could someone please explain to me the difference between the unstable 
and stable directories?  Since it seems like all the bug fixes go in 
unstable, isn't the unstable stuff more stable than stable? 

-=-

Daniel Robbins
School of Medicine Computer Services
University of New Mexico

[email:drobbins@unm.edu]



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