Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?
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Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Wei Chen:
>> But I once heard that things in the "Testing" distribution always change
>> gradually. And the big gap between stable and testing will cause the
>> upgrade not so easy after some time of the release of stable. Is that true?
>
> Yes, more or less. If you do upgrades, there is always a chance that
> some package needs special attention because of changes in config files
> etc. And the more packages you upgrade at a time, the more likely it is
> that you have encounter such package upgrades. But generally, this
> amounts to the same work that you have have to do when upgrading daily,
> the only difference is that you have to do it all at once.
>
> But waiting has the advantage that you are less likely to encounter
> serious problems and that the upgrade path of each package has been
> tested and maybe even polished up a bit.
>
> J.
Yes. I agree with you. In this way a lot of upgrades that are in the
middle of the way can be saved. And those ones can actually cause
problems. Thanks.
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Cheers,
Wei Chen
http://www.acplex.com/people/wchen/
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