Re: What's wrong with debian?
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Eric Gaumer wrote:
> I don't really understand peoples concern. If Sarge was released
> tomorrow it would be the same group of packages sitting there today
> (relatively speaking).
>
> My point is if you think Sarge is stable (which it is) then go ahead and
> upgrade/install. What difference do the politics play? Security fixes
It's not the politics - its the policy. Debian approaches Stable and
Testing releases differently.
Can I apt-get update && apt-get upgrade a Sarge box with the same
confidence that nothing will break that I put into Woody? If so then this
needs to be stated because AFAIk Sarge is not even in code freeze yet -
something might break badly at the next upgrade. I can't take this risk
in production. Also, security updates are not formally applied seperately
to the Testing distro - this is also a big deal for a box in production.
Cheers,
Rob
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