Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
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Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> 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?
I don't know about Testing, but subsystems in Unstable never stay
broken for more than a few days. Too many bug reports...
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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