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Re: Will Sid go nuts?



Incoming from Patrick Wiseman:
> On 6/2/05, Lee Braiden <jel@tundra.ath.cx> wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 Jun 2005 01:34, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> > > I _had_ planned on just staying with 'testing' in my sources.list.  Is
> > > that a bad idea?
> > 
> > I think Patrick might be referring to switching from sid to testing for a
> > while, until things settle again.  Is that right, Patrick?
> 
> No - the original poster suggested that both testing and unstable were
> problematic after the last stable release.  So I was concerned that
> the new 'testing' would be flaky for a while.  I've found the current
> testing, which I've had in my sources.list for a couple of years now,
> mostly reliable, with the occasional glitch.  I can continue to live
> with that.  In other words, cutting edge is OK, but bleeding edge is a
> bit too much for me!
> 
> Thanks for everyone's advice.  I think I'll stick with testing for now.

So edit sources.list to say "sarge" instead of "testing", and watch
what others are encountering.  Once you see how stable sarge is and
how others are doing with the new testing, change "sarge" to testing
and track the new testing.


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