Re: Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-19 Thread Peter Hoist
> > https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseProposals > Great list, contains a lot of what I have to say. The fact that debian is laser focused on stable, and does not officially encourage using testing as a rolling release (as evidenced from a couple replies to this email chain), yet there are still peop

Debian's branches and release model

2021-10-18 Thread Peter Hoist
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