Re: unstable or testing - which one to use?
David Z Maze wrote:
>
> Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org> writes:
> DS> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote:
> ES> what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting
> ES> that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable
> ES> was. what's the status of testing and what is now the best choice
> ES> roughly equal to what unstable used to be? I understand that it's
> ES> gonna be testing later but is it later yet?
> DS>
> DS> Testing works great for me. IIRC, testing was originally created
> DS> as a snapshot of unstable, and has been updated by its normal
> DS> rules (2 weeks without problems, no unstable dependenceis, etc.)
> DS> since then, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be more
> DS> stable than unstable.
>
> It was originally created as a snapshot of *stable*, and given the
> "woody" name. (This confused people who were tracking "woody", since
> the current version numbers jumped backwards when this happened.) But
> testing is up and running, and I've heard pretty good things about it
> so far. I'm not sure what you mean by it being "at the same level" as
> unstable. What unstable used to be is still unstable.
I thought the testing was created as snapshot of potato and was
supposed to be brought to woody, later on functioning as almost-unstable
(few weeks behind, all packages from unstable with no serious bug go
into testing).
however: I have set the sources for apt to testing and did update and
dist-upgrade (ugg in aptitude) and saw ONLY potato level packages
updated to potato! see this:
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...
Setting up passwd (20000902-2) ...
Setting up make (3.79.1-1.potato.1) ...
Setting up console-apt (0.7.7.2potato2) ...
Setting up libreadlineg2 (2.1-21) ...
Setting up xf86setup (3.3.6-11potato15) ...
Setting up xmh (3.3.6-11potato15) ...
Setting up xproxy (3.3.6-11potato15) ...
Press return to continue.
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this is what I have in /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free
doesn't make much sense.
erik
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