Ross Burton wrote: > > On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 17:09, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > > > > hmm, Ok, give me a list of stability: > > > > potato most stable > > sid (unstable) next most stable > > woody (testing) "least" stable > > > > Problem is manage ment doesn't understand "shortly after" they want > > an "average # of hours/days" etc. > > Wrong order, unstable is less stable than testing. Testing is packages > being tested for stable.
I've found unstable to be of better use than testing. The reason is that even bugfixes need at least 10 days to go into testing, whereas in unstable they could be included the next day. I've been badly bitten on some occasions by a testing dist-upgrade that left my system broken. Granted, unstable is also broken sometimes, but I have found that the errors are much easier to fix than testing errors. And if I can't get it to work, it'll usually repair itself with the next dist-upgrade. MfG Viktor -- Viktor Rosenfeld WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/
