Re: Question re Debian versions
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On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:35, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
> Say you have package A that makes it past unstable and into testing.
> Then someone finds a bug in package A. It turns out to be an icky bug,
> and it takes quite a while to fix it. The bug will be fixed in unstable
> before trickling down into testing.
>
> Also, look at security updates. Updates are provided for stable and
> unstable almost immediately. Then those using testing distributions
> must wait the allotted amount of time before receiving the unstable
> update in testing.
>
> It is true that packages go from experimental (not a distribution) to
> unstable to testing to stable.
>
> It is not true that stability/usability increases as you go from
> unstable to testing to stable.
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation.
When I do change from Sarge on my dev. machine, I may go to unstable ... or
make it a mixed machine.
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