Re: woody to testing
Hi.
My main problem is that only KDE3 supports Greek in a normal way (that is
without modifications in config files). That is that reason that I am so
interested in KDE3.
How much time does usually pass before testing becomes stable?
have a nice day,
Mihalis.
On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, David Z Maze wrote:
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 11:10:17 -0500
> From: David Z Maze <dmaze@debian.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: woody to testing
> Resent-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:13:30 -0600 (CST)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>
> mtsouk@freemail.gr writes:
> > I am considering of moving to testing as well.
> > I want to ask a few questions before doing this:
> >
> > 1. What are the major benefits of testing?
>
> You get software that's substantially closer to the "bleeding edge",
> and is newer than the last stable Debian release. In theory this
> includes a consistent set of software out of unstable that's been
> there at least a week and a half and doesn't have serious problems.
>
> > 2. What are the major problems of testing?
>
> It doesn't have a separate security update system as stable does, and
> security updates in unstable take time to trickle into testing.
> Sometimes a severely broken package makes it from unstable into
> testing. I think the actual infrastructure that generates testing is
> pretty solid by now, though it's had some issues in the past.
>
> > 3. Can I go back to woody after moving to testing?
>
> Not easily. Package downgrades aren't well supported. A couple of
> people have tried to go back with varying degrees of success; search
> the debian-user archives for their stories.
>
> > 4. Which version of KDE does testing have?
>
> The search engine on http://packages.debian.org/ seems to think that
> stable, testing, and unstable all have KDE 2.2.
>
> --
> David Maze dmaze@debian.org http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
> "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal."
> -- Abra Mitchell
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