think I've settled

[Collins Richey]

On 1/25/07, David Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Agreed. I'm pretty used to "a lot of unstable stuff" being dumped into
testing with the Ubuntu development releases <grin>. I don't know
about the Debian team, but the Ubuntu developers don't even bother to
check whether anything is broken after the dumping. Right now all is
pretty good in Feisty, but there have been a couple of killer glitches
in the past two months.

-- 
Collins Richey
     If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries
     of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.