Long time no see.....

[David A. Bandel]

2009/11/29 Man-wai Chang <toylet at changmw.com>:
>> If you say so.  Testing stays more or less current and there's always
>> unstable.  OTOH, when you have a bunch of customers with Asterisk
>> servers who scream if their phones aren't working (because phones just
>> work), conservative and stable is good.
>>
>> I have some automated scripts that keep everything up to date, and
>> having a bunch of different machines complicates things, so I stick to
>> Debian.
>
> I think people should always trust the software developers. If you
> didn't, you should not have included it. Backporting is less than
> satisfactory.
>
> Does Debian really make it easy to use latest and hottest packages?

Yes.  Their repositories are amongst the most complete.  The
definitely have more network packages than anyone else.

> Unstable?

All packages start in unstable.  Then, depending on installs (#
downloads) and # and severity of bug reports, these are slowly allowed
to move into testing.  Eventually, the testing branch freezes and
moves to stable.  No new packages go into stable.  Some packages never
get out of unstable (due to bugs or lack of folks using/testing them).

Sounds like a good plan to me.  Seems to work well.  I just stick to
testing mostly.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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