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Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]



On Du, 11 iul 21, 06:54:31, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > 
> > While your testing + stable as needed mix is pretty simple[1] the 
> > reverse mix stable + select packages from testing requires adequate 
> > pinning and can quickly become problematic for anything but the
> > simplest packages packages (no or very few dependencies) pulled from
> > testing.
> 
> I can see how it could become an issue for someone who's trying to stick
> mainly with stable, but that's never been my goal. As soon as you
> dist-upgrade against the combination of testing and stable, you're
> primarily on testing, with stable present only as an "in case of
> removal" backstop.

Unless one has appropriate pinning in place ;)

> > You should be using -backports instead or backport packages yourself
> > if necessary[2].
> 
> I hope this is general/generic "you", and not directed at me
> specifically. I first read this as chiding me against running this mix,
> and that came across as mildly offensive.

Indeed it was, apologies for the bad wording.

In my head it didn't apply to you because you aren't actually running 
that mix.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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