Re: Relative stability of Testing vs Unstable

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

John Hasler wrote:
> songbird writes:
>> i've been running testing with bits from unstable and/or experimental
>> for quite some time now.
>
> Experimental is a completely different kettle of fish.

  of course.  :)  it is not like i'm using a lot of
things from there.  more like one or two items.


>  Unstable
> contains packages that the developer hopes and expects will migrate to
> Testing and end up in Stable without incident, and he's usually right.
> Experimental, on the other hand, contains packages that the developer
> wants people to experiment with.  It is not a mistake or policy
> violation to upload a package known to contain a grave bug to
> Experimental.

  i usually check if there is a newer version there
if i'm experiencing a bug in a version that is in
testing or unstable to see if the newer version solves
the bug.  most recently it was libreoffice, but the
newer version didn't make any difference so i purged
it and reinstalled the testing version again (and then
worked around the issue).


  songbird