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Re: How automatic are backport package updates?



On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 11:31:16AM -0500, songbird wrote:
>   yes, but since Debian is run by volunteers and many of
> them are very busy it has been talked about but not beyond 
> that.  the idea of rolling releases, always releasable, and 
> some other phrases has been discussed, but until enough 
> people get together to actually do it and prove that it 
> works and will be supported it won't happen.  unstable is
> perhaps the closest currently coming to that idea, but
> the freeze process pushes development off into experimental
> or upstream until the freeze is done and then the whole
> cycle comes up again.

I understood that Unstable == Sid from Andrew's detailed message in
this thread and it's also on confirmed on this page:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable.

I was not thinking this would cause more (or significantly more
anyway) work than we already do.  Dot releases are tested.  It might
even be *less* work as upgrades would be incremental and smaller
rather than large.

Thinking back, this is one of the beauties of Testing is that things
happen incrementally over time.  Sure, I may have to fix something
here and there but that often turns out to be easier and less
stressful than doing a major upgrade and having to set aside an entire
weekend.

Michael Grant

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