Hi. Kumar Appaiah, 03.09.2007 09:44: > On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:31:27AM +0200, Rickard Lindberg wrote: >> Does anyone have any experience running the 'testing' release? I >> watched 'The Technology Behind Debian's Testing Release' from google >> video yesterday, and in the end of the presentation he mentioned that >> in the future, it might be possible to run a stable release, but at >> the same time install some packages from unstable. Does anyone know >> anything about that? When will it be available? Is someone is working >> on it? > > You can, even now, try putting testing in your sources.list and try to > move to testing. Testing is also a trifle better than instable because > the secutiry team now gives security updates for testing as > well. Well, Unstable gets security updates too, only as regular package updates. > Added advantage: it gets all newer packages from unstable after > 10 days of no critical bug reports in unstable. This is an added disadvantage for me, since it also can take 10 or more days until a fix can enter Testing where it is fixed sometimes on the same day in Unstable. > In a sense, testing (now lenny) may be just the right balance you are > looking for, but YMMV. Agreed. Regards, Mathias -- debian/rules
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