On Mon 08 May 2017 at 12:13:30 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 08 May 2017 00:45:34 Michael Milliman wrote: > > Many people also run Experimental > > (Sid) for the benefit of bleeding-edge versions of software, but a lot > > of instability (in all senses of the word). > > No, Sid is not the same as Experimental. Sid is Unstable. Then there is > also > Experimental, which cannot actually be run, but from which packages can be > taken (if you like to live dangerously ;-) )
experimental is not a distribution. Someone with a sense of humour gave it the codename "rc-buggy". At the present time many of the packages there are being held back from unstable because of the freeze. Once Stretch is officially released they will migrate to unstable. They will be no less dangerous there than they were in experimental (unless bugs have been fixed in the meantime). However, I agree with your sentiment. Users installing packages from the experimental archive should read the changelogs carefully and be prepared to meet and report bugs. -- Brian.
