[EMAIL PROTECTED] said... > > > > Subject: How do you "move to testing/etch"? > > You may already know this, but just in case you don't . . .you need to > understand that the decision to track testing instead of stable or > unstable is a serious one, with potentially serious hazards. Many > people have the concept in their heads that testing is a fairly > robust distribution that's less risky than unstable -- something like > "more current than stable, but less dangerous than unstable." That > isn't true, because that isn't the purpose of testing. When things > break in testing, they can often stay that way for an extended period > of time -- viz. two occasions last year when first GNOME, and then > KDE, were uninstallable out of testing, and broken for those tracking > testing closely, for more than a month in each case. That's not > because of the developers doing anything wrong; it's just the nature > of what testing is. If your reason for wanting to upgrade to testing > is because you see it as splitting the difference between stable > and unstable, you need to read about what testing is and how it's > (automatically) put together. > > OTOH, if you already knew all the above, cool, sorry for being > long-winded, maybe it'll be helpful to someone else.
:-) The irony is that I used the word "moving", while the docs say "upgrade". You make a valid point, but I'm aware of the nest of spiders awaiting. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
