Mike Bird <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu July 22 2010 05:21:09 Russ Allbery wrote:
>> But on testing, it's been rock-solid for me for years. It's not just >> somewhat less breakage. I think it's almost no breakage. Occasionally >> packages get stranded for a long time at back revs because of various >> migration problems, and once or twice I've had to pin something >> (usually because of non-free drivers like fglrx or nvidia that aren't >> really part of Debian), but it's an experience that I can comfortably >> recommend. > I've been bitten too many times by the "We removed X from Testing for > internal release master reasons - please don't imagine Testing is > intended for real users" syndrome. Why do you care if they temporarily removed X? I mean, yes, that's a real pain if that happens during the window when you're trying to install a new system, and I suppose that could happen, but you have to get pretty unlucky. Nearly all of the time, you have X already installed, so what difference does it make if it's not available from the repository for a little bit? It doesn't break the packages already on your system. (In fact, this is usually done to ensure that things sequence such that upgrades *won't* break the packages already on your system.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
