Re: Question re Debian versions
Michael Satterwhite <michael@weblore.com> writes:
> On Thursday 18 March 2004 14:28, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
>> What sorts of testing would you want to do on your testing machine? The
>> testing distro is a little odd in that it's really intended for
>> developers, not users. It's "the stuff they're working on for the next
>> release of stable," not necessarily "the stuff that's more stable than
>> unstable but newer than stable." This is a subtle but important
>> difference. For example, security updates will make it into testing
>> *after* they make it into both unstable and stable.
>
> I do development on the machine running Sarge. The package list in the stable
> list gets a bit dated for me. They, however, are perfect for the machine that
> *HAS* to be up and stable. I don't want that machine anywhere near the
> cutting edge.
However, testing tends to be more broken than unstable. Testing works
well right now since we're near a release and almost everything in there
is in a releasable state, but after sarge releases, watch out.
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