On 12/14/2017 09:21 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > It seems like lagging stability is due to a lack of resources. I do > not know a single person who would be able to run only stable > packages.
I run stable only on most of my systems. > They seem to move too slowly, and people switch to unstable > packages because they contain bugfixes and sometimes new features. slow isn't necessarily a problem, as long as security fixes are handled. There is some balancing for large performance gains, but most existing systems are scaled based on the current estimates so it would only be relevant for the up sizing of the server park for growth needs etc. > > Could the criteria for stability be reconsidered? Mixed systems might why would it? > not be supported, but save for cases of ABI/API breakage (which can > happen when transitioning from stable->stable) I do not know why the > packages would not play well with each other. I am sure there are > examples where things have blown up, but it seems like expecting that > to be the case isn't helping. There are plenty of cases where this fails in miserable ways, so thats not a good idea (not to mention the dependency hell from it). That said, you can have a stable chroot, or just use a VM for testing etc. -- Kristian Fiskerstrand OpenPGP keyblock reachable at hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net fpr:94CB AFDD 3034 5109 5618 35AA 0B7F 8B60 E3ED FAE3
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