Re: Stability of testing
Hey Bill, glad to know you're using Debian!
> If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
Well, unstable varies in stability from 0 to 9 quite frequently.
The trick is catching it at the right time.
> how would you rate the testing distribution?
testing is meant to help `catch testing at the right time'.
Having said that, I'm still using potato just because I don't
want to use up too much bandwidth at work. But now that testing
exists, I might start tracking it, uploading one a month or so.
(I have a small unstable chroot environment to build packages
meant for uploading to unstable).
> (This might be a useful
> metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
> distribution is for them.)
Hard to decide on that number...
> Also, it would be nice to just update /etc/apt/sources.list and fire
> off dselect to go from potato to woody, but I suppose folks here
> will recommend that I use "apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade"
> instead.
I haven't used dselect in ages. I _always_ get lost in it (I
suppose I should learn it properly). So yeah, try apt-get and
get hooked like the rest of us.
Peter
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