On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:34:49PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I saw all the articles on the switch of testing to etch and release of sarge
> as stable.
>
> I am one of many who has been running a desktop tracking sid for months.
>
> Just before the release, how far apart were sid and testing? were the only
> things in sid = bug fixes for sarge?
>
> This is relevant for someon who was running a sid desktop who may want to wait
> a while before tracking sid/etch because of all the many new changes.
>
> If sid != testing at the moment of sarge release, then how could such an
> indvidual "go back to sarge" from sid (the sid of before sarge release)?
>
> Also , many people say it pays to track testing. But testing gets fixes slower
> than sid... (according to the debian "chose a distro' faq ...) So you can
> lose both ways :). Unless you can live dangerously....
Hi Mitchell,
from my understanding, when bugs are fixed, after being reported from
testing or sid, the new packages is uploaded into unstable. after
sufficient time as to allow some testing, packages go into testing. So,
in the normal course of things, 'bug fixes' are not applied to
'testing'. Also, Debian is not made for 'downgrading'. It may work with
a few packages, but no packages are designed/tested for this. The only
thing I can offer as advice: DO NOT apt-get update & upgrade until you
read about people NOT having problems with $IMPORTANT_PACKAGE like gnome
or kde.
Cheers,
Kev
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