Re: Goodbye stable?
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:46:27PM +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just discovered the recent increase of the numer of release-critical bugs
> and was shocked. The RCB diagramm seems to suggest that sarge will hardly
> ever be released as stable.
>
> I'm asking myself what the impacts of this are? Will Debian lose a lot of
> users since the current stable release contains software which is somtimes
> terrible old? What are the reasons for sarge taking so long to become
> stable? Were there any such release problems with the previous releases of
> Debian? Is it desirable for me to keep at Debian if I don't get a relatively
> current system?
>
What is your system used for?
If its a workstation and not a server I think you can upgrade the sarge
(testing) without waiting for it to become stable.
Personally I am using unstable for several years now (over 7 I believe)
and rarely had a problem, and usually my fault anyway (I tend to
heavily abuse systems in ways they shouldn't ;-)
> I hope to hear good opinions, no flamewars and no apologetic.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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