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Re: Jessie sufficiently stable for general use?



Le 06/03/2015 21:22, Miles Fidelman a écrit :
> Brian wrote:
>> On Fri 06 Mar 2015 at 09:27:23 -0800, Patrick Bartek wrote:
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>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2015, Ken Heard wrote:
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>>>> 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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> Somehow, anything that needs daily updates, or upgrades, does not meet
> any definition of "stable" that I'm familiar with.
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> Miles Fidelman
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It does not need daily update. But some update must be done ASAP...


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