> This depends on what you intend to do when wheezy becomes stable. Do
> you want to continue to use testing forever, or do you want to have a
> system that remains basically unchanged for a long time? If the latter,
> use "wheezy" instead of "testing".
>
> Sven
I see.
I want to stay with testing in the long term but would prefer not to
await for security updates.
Right now security updates are treated as a normal update, that is a
normal package transition from unstable to testing, correct?
Colin,
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 6 Feb 5 2011 testing -> wheezy
lrwxrwxrwx 1 21285 21285 23 Feb 5 2011 testing-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 28 Jan 29 2012 wheezy
drwxr-sr-x 5 21285 21285 21 Jan 29 2012 wheezy-proposed-updates
There is no difference, at all, between Wheezy and Testing -- They are the same physical thing on the Debian repository server's hard disk. Testing is nothing more than a symlink to Wheezy. When updates go into Testing, they're actually being put into a directory named Wheezy.
To answer your other question, security updates for Testing move through from Unstable like any other update except for being fast tracked: