Re: What to do when testing come to stable on a Debian wheezy/sid?
On Fri 22 Jun 2012 at 12:47:58 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Brian writes:
> > I'm not too sure about daily or regular updates being silly as opposed
> > to unnecessary...
>
> Daily and/or automatic updates when running Sid are silly because sooner
> or later they will get you in trouble.
And leaving the updating for an extended period won't? Sorry, I don't
follow that.
> > How do you deal with security updates? Subscribe to the relevant
> > mailing list, I suppose.
>
> When running Sid you must read both debian-devel and debian-security.
I'm inclined to go with that.
> -devel will warn you about breakages and transitions so that you will
> know when and when not to upgrade. -security is obvious.
I'm not too sure I'd always rely on -devel for security information.
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