On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 02:29:18PM +0300, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
As a user I (and, I think, many others like me) want up-to-date
versions of packages such as browsers. In practice I have few
options:
- use backports — if the package has made it there;
- use sid;
- use Firefox by adding the Mozilla repository to apt;
- use Flatpak.
The sid and backports repositories are about equally likely to break
something on the desktop, so I treat them as equivalent and try to
avoid that approach.
I disagree. Sid is an unreleased development version that should not be
run by end users. It is work in progress and can break any time. Mixing
stable and sid packages brings you the worst of both worlds: You have
outdated software in part of your packages, fresh breakage in others,
and next to no test coverage for this combination of packages.
Otoh, installing packages from stable-backports on stable is SUPPOSED to
work and is not supposed to break things. If it does, it's a bug in the
backported package and should be addressed by the espective maintainer.
Two totally differnt things.
Greetings
Marc
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