Re: debian unstable, stable enough?
I'll stay in testing. I've tried to move up to unstable and couldn't initiate the X server after the upgrade. Fortunately I had a backup of the whole system and got back to testing in a moment. As I see in
http://packages.debian.org/testing and http://packages.debian.org/unstable there are no major differences. Both have Gnome 2.14.3 and when Gnome 2.16 enters unstable I don't think it's gonna take long to be in testing. Perhaps being in testing is the best for a production Desktop as all dependencies are satisfied and you don't have the old packages residing in stable. What's more the chances to break the system seem to be less than being in unstable.
On 9/8/06, John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org> wrote:
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.
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