Michael Grant wrote: > Let's say I want to run 'testing' to be more on the edge to get the latest > and greatest of packages and to incrementally always be on top of updates > rather than having to do large release updates. But from time to time there > is a security update to a package which is newer, or if something specific is > broken, I may want to go back to a specific version of something. What > should I put in my sources.list?
Are you running a production system? That is, are you running a Debian system which is essential to your business or personal activities, so that having to recover from a disaster would be a significant hardship? If so, you should be running buster, and considering moving to the next stable release no sooner than a few weeks after the transition to bullseye. You should accept security updates as soon as is convenient for you, on an ongoing basis. Backports are to solve specific issues. If you are running a system for fun, or if there is no real issue with protracted unavailability, testing is a fine thing to be running. You should expect a little chaos every time you update. Only stable gets security updates. Testing may get security updates when they come from upstream, but it's not guaranteed. -dsr-
