Re: Stability of testing
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Bill Wohler wrote:
> If the stability of stable is 10 and the stability of unstable is 1,
> how would you rate the testing distribution? (This might be a useful
> metric to post on the Debian site to help Debian users decide which
> distribution is for them.)
5-7. Packages may change daily, but have (some of the) bugs worked out.
Extremely bleeding edge software won't make it in to testing, because of
the requirements to move a package from unstable to testing include
usability on all architectures and some other things that imply letting it
cook a little longer. If unstable is raw, and stable is well done, call
testing rare to medium rare.
> 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.
>
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