Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Brian wrote:
> 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.

Somehow, anything that needs daily updates, or upgrades, does not meet 
any definition of "stable" that I'm familiar with.

Miles Fidelman




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