On Lu, 18 oct 21, 12:29:55, Peter Hoist wrote: > Hi, > > I am enjoying Debian's testing branch as a reasonably stable and up-to-date > 'rolling' release, and I have to say it satisfies all my desires, almost. > The one thing that bothers me is that every two years, the unstable/testing > branches are frozen to certain extent because of the stable releases. This > means the testing branch can be quite lagged behind upstream releases. One > example is gcc, with gcc-11 released almost 6 months ago, and it is still > not default in debian testing - I know it is being worked on right now and > probably only a couple days away, but still... > > So the question is, why not cut a release branch every two years, and at > the same time keep the unstable/testing alive? Is it because debian > developers think it's too much work to reconcile the differences later, so > they prefer freezing? > > Some ppl recommend arch for this reason, but I am already familiar with > apt's way of things, and would hold off switching before I have a better > understanding of the bigger picture. > > I am certainly not qualified to make recommendations here, just wondering > what is the reason behind it and if there is some proposal to make testing > a better/closer 'rolling' release that ppl like me can enjoy better:)
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseProposals Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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