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Re: debian unstable, stable enough?



Le vendredi 08 septembre 2006 à 15:57 +0200, Jochen Schulz a écrit :
> Jordi Carrillo:
> >
> > If packages go from unstable to testing in just 10 days then it's not worth
> > going to unstable, is it? I mean, you can live in the bleeding edge as well
> > being in testing.
> 
> You are forgetting the complicated dependency structure of Debian's
> packages. When a new version of one of the big system components, like
> Gnome, KDE or X enters unstable, it can take a few months for the
> complete upgrade to propagate to testing.

And is it not "broken is some way" in the meantime? I mean, are the few
months just to move things manually, or to get everything in order
before it's propagated?

Regards, T.




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