> Yes. I am assuming you made a new stable installation, you have not > just changed the repository from unstable to stable. That will most > definitely not work. > > Are you asking why only a few packages are upgraded, compared to > unstable? > > Stable should not need many upgrades. In unstable, package versions are > frequently upgraded, most of the software has bugs, and sometimes the > entire architecture of a linked group of programs is changed. > > In general, software versions in stable do not change, except for web > browsers and anti-virus software. Security bugs are fixed, though not > normally functional bugs. Debian stable is often used in servers, where > a change of behaviour due to a bug being fixed may cause worse problems > than the bug did. > > The whole purpose of stable is to be an unchanging platform, as far as > is possible. That means that the software versions are largely frozen > months before release, and will never change. If you need fairly > up-to-date software all the time, then stable is not the correct > distribution to use, either testing or unstable are more appropriate. > I know that my packages are ahead at the moment, but what about the future? My question is can I get updates in the future? For example the time that the `buster` becomes stable, can I securely update/upgrade? This is my personal PC. -- Regards, Mostafa Shahverdy <http://www.mostafa.info/pgp>
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