Re: Question re Debian versions
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:31, Brian Nelson wrote:
> 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.
I'm sure I'm missing something here. I would expect that the Testing version
becomes more unstable after the current Sid becomes the Testing version
(which is why I wouldn't update from Sarge to ??? for a few months). But are
you *REALLY* saying that the new Testing version will be more unstable than
the new Unstable version?? Something seems wrong with that picture.
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