On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 06:30:03AM +0330, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote: > > 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>
Why not just use Buster? What your saying will probably work, but in the meantime you'll have a broken insecure system. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian#Don.27t_make_a_FrankenDebian Buster probably wont become stable until about 2019. -- Daniel Keast, Hatherleigh, UK
