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Re: debian unstable, stable enough?



Jordi Carrillo writes:
> 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.

Thibaut Paumard writes:
> And is it not "broken is some way" in the meantime?

No.  No package enters Testing until all its dependencies are satisfied.
That's the largest difference between Unstable and Testing.
-- 
John Hasler



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