Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?
On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote:
>
> > Thanks everybody for the collected wisdom. So for me now Jessie RC1
> > is it.
>
> FYI: Do daily updates using dist-upgrade, instead of upgrade (or the
> equivalent with aptitude, if you use that). Things change quickly and
> sometimes majorly on the path to Stable. You'll want to get ALL those
> changes -- minor and major. "Upgrade" won't do that. This is
> recommended by Debian. Once Jessie is Stable, revert to "upgrade" for
> the most part.
I agree with everything but the final sentence. Stable is unlikely to
pull in any new packages but if it does you will likely need them.
In other words, 'dist-upgrade' should be the norm for stable.
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