Re: A question for the list:
On Fri November 5 2010 08:54:23 am ZephyrQ wrote:
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Vi, 05 nov 10, 10:18:04, John Hasler wrote:
> >> Drew writes:
> >>> Consider installing apt-listbugs if you're going to run sid.
> >>
> >> Good point. Also, don't feel that you should "track" Unstable. Upgrade
> >> individual packages as needed and do an occasional dist-upgrade if you
> >> feel the need to clean things up.
> >
> > Still, upgrading too seldom can make the upgrade more painful, even for
> > testing. YMMV, of course.
>
> I hate to ask the question this way, but in terms of
> problems/fixes/downtime--approximately how often do you find that you
> have to 'fix' something in Sid? 1x week, 1x month? (I know that my
> MMV, but if I start playing with either testing or unstable, I don't
> want to get into a problem/find fix/fix lather/rinse/repeat cycle too
> often).
I have not experienced any downtime with squeeze or sid. At times there are
bugs that are usually minor. There isn't much to do but wait for the package
to be updated. That doesn't take long usually, in sid packages can be updated
frequently. Packages have to live in sid for 10 days without rc bugs in order
to move into testing so the software in squeeze has had some testing and it
will take longer for buggy packages to be fixed and make the transition to
testing.
If anything is going to happen it will happen in testing/unstable so buyer
beware ;)
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