Re: testing security updates
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> Also, currently, digikam is not in testing. No big deal, I have it
> installed and working. *However* if I had just installed testing, I
> would get digikam from stable, because I use it daily, and can't do
> certain things without it.
Yeah, I gave the (overly) simplified set of warnings.
You can't "run stable but cherry-pick from testing". A lot of people
want to do that. It cannot be done safely, at least not by someone who
isn't an expert. (Use backports instead!)
But you *can* run testing and cherry-pick from stable (sometimes). Or,
you can run stable and cherry-pick from oldstable (sometimes). It
requires some knowledge and carries some risk.
It's mostly a matter of understanding that you are running the *newest*
of whichever set of branches you mix. If you have some packages from
stable, and some packages from unstable, you are running unstable. It
doesn't matter whether it's 99% stable, or 1% stable -- it's still
really unstable. You need to see it that way, or you are screwed.
For *most* users, running stable, or running stable plus selected
backports, is the correct choice.
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