input needed on Debian

David A. Bandel david
Mon May 17 11:57:03 PDT 2004


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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 12:29:36 -0500
Leon Goldstein <metapsych at earthlink.net> wrote:

> David Bandel wrote:
> 
> >I run stable and testing and never had a problem.  I have a test box
> >where I occasionally update unstable and believe me, it's definitely
> >earned the name. Unless you're a masochist, don't put unstable on a
> >system (at least not one you want to be able to use).
> >
> >  
> >
> David: I'd like to post your above statement on the Libranet user's
> forum.(Quoted, with attribution, of course.)
> There are too many posts from people who installed Libranent, then 
> update to unstable
> without bothering to check what is going to happen.
> 
> Libranet is fast and easy to install, so there is little excuse for
> not installing a "lab rat" install and testing unstable updates on it
> before going to town on the installation that earns its keep.
> 

Post it if you want.  However, as soon as I said "no problems with
testing" I just found one :-(.  Minor annoyance w/ webmin if you try to
read users' mail (Perl error).  But unstable usually has a number of
(majorly) broken packages as well as unmet dependencies, etc.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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