On Tuesday 28 April 2015 09:48:43 Nicolas George wrote: > Le nonidi 9 floréal, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a écrit : > > You ask if it is stable enough for a personal computer. How long is a > > piece of string? I personally would let it settle a bit before going > > over to Stretch. Others have testing in their sources lists and went > > straight over to Stretch last Sunday. > > I do not think that "let it settle" makes a lot of sense given the way the > unstable-testing-stable transition works. If you want to use testing (or > unstable), you need frequent upgrades, or you are in for a lot of pain when > you do the upgrade. > > On Sunday, testing and stable were identical. Now that the release is done > and the freeze period is over, new versions and new packages will start > arriving. And because of the six-month-long freeze, developers are eager to > push them, so the first few weeks will have big daily upgrades. > > Waiting before migrating from stable to testing is the same as not > upgrading a testing box for the same time regardless of releases (except > you get security upgrades, of course): when you do migrate, it will be > painful. > > Another remark: testing is not stable does not mean that it will crash, > corrupt the disk or whatever. It may happen, but the worse bugs are > eliminated by the Debian developers themselves, and the worse > remaining-ones are blocked by the unstable-testing quarantine. > > What it really means is that the packaging is unstable. Packages may be > added, removed, renamed, split. For example, an upgrade can be blocked by a > package that you installed six month ago and that has later been removed. > Behaviours will change too, you may get a server that no longer starts just > because the syntax of the config file has changed. That is the kind of > instability with non-stable Debian. With stable, theoretically, you can let > cron do the upgrades and never worry because each upgrade is supposed to be > a completely drop-in replacement.
And at the end of all that, it is still a matter of personal choice whether to move over or not. One man's meat is another man's poison. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504280956.09412.lisi.re...@gmail.com
