On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 18:15 +0300, Lior Kaplan wrote:
> Omer Zak wrote:
> > I neglected to ask for clarification previously, so I'll ask now. I was
> > under the impression that Debian Unstable is for developers, as it has
> > no guarantees about the quality of packages. However, Debian Testing is
> > meant for packages, which were tested and are supposed to be stable.
> >
> > This was the situation for Debian Sarge, before it was turned into
> > stable. Are the roles of Unstable and Testing reversed for Etch?
>
> The names of Debian's flavors represent the package archive. Unstable -
> changes a lot. Stable doesn't change at all. Testing gets packages from
> unstable 10 days after the package has entered unstable, unless it has
> RC bugs or dependency problems.
In other words, the right choice for me now is Testing. I am not a
Debian developer, and I do not have the resources to deal with systems
broken by buggy upgrades. So I prefer to use packages only after some
filtering.
> Testing, is now just a mild version on unstable. Look at it as a place
> which filters broken packages from unstable.
>
> It is the same as it was for Sarge, but Debian isn't near to a release,
> so that's exactly the time to have unstable with all the new things
> which could break stuff.
>
> I use unstable for two reasons:
> 1. I really enjoy the new stuff, and it doesn't break many things.
> 2. when building packages - you must build them for unstable (unless it
> a fix for stable).
I am willing to wait few days for the new stuff. I do not build
packages. So my tradeoff is different from yours.
--- Omer
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