Joseph Smidt wrote: > I want to run testing for I like keeping farely leading edge software on > my computer. When they freeze etch can I just change my repo's from > etch to testing and keep getting new software, or do I have to wait for > the etch freeze to be over before testing goes back to being what > testing currently is. > I guess what I am saying is I want to run testing, getting software > that has survived in unstable for about 10 days, but I don't want to > stay with etch once it starts freezing and is no longer getting new > software. Can I do that while etch is in freeze? > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------- > Joseph Smidt > jsmidt@byu.edu <mailto:jsmidt@byu.edu> If you point your sources.list at testing, you will always track testing, even when Etch is released and Etch+1 becomes the new testing. However, I think long and hard about tracking testing. Breakages in testing, while infrequent, can last a long time. This is because some transition may be half over when an RC bug is reported against some package that has not yet migrated to testing. That package will be stuck in unstable until the bug is fixed. This occasionally happens with new versions of Gnome or KDE or other big packages. If you want up to date software, you should probably consider either using backports or unstable. Testing is for people who really want to help test the next release. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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