Re: Unstable ==> Testing ==> Stable

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Sven writes:

>> It is of note that "experimental" in itself is not a complete set of
>> packages like "unstable" is, it is intended as an addon to "unstable"
>> and has to be used in conjunction with it.

> It is also of note that Unstable is unstable in that it is constantly
> changing, not that it is full of buggy packages.  One of the ways in
> which it can be unstable is that new versions of packages can be
> uploaded to it with out regard to the presence or absence of
> dependencies. 

The latter part is mitigated a bit when source-only uploads are used, as
those greatly reduce the impact of an unclean build-environment on the
DDs side.

But during library transitions "unstable" gets hit with this with the
full force, doing "apt dist-upgrade" blindly will see you remove the
major parts of your system quite easily.

You have to use your brain a bit when using "unstable".

Grüße,
Sven.

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