think I've settled

[David Bandel]

On 1/25/07, Myles Green <rmg57 at telus.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:46:11 -0700
> "Collins Richey" <crichey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Now that I have the Debian experience from running Ubuntu, I probably
> > should make the cutover to Debian testing, since I prefer the
> > continuous upgrade approach rather than the massive upgrade or start
> > over every 6 months.
>
> Be forewarned: sometimes the testing branch can be a rougher ride than
> unstable. Not sure why, that's just been my experience. I can say with
> certainty that, right now, testing (Etch) is pretty stable but once
> Etch is released all bets are off.
>

Right after testing becomes stable, a lot of unstable stuff is dumped
into testing.  Problem is the mix of xxx depends on libzzz <=a, but
yyy depends on libzzz > a.  Takes a couple weeks to get everything
sync'd back.  Just wait a month on any but security upgrades for
testing during that time.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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