On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 08:17:20AM +0000, Adam Funk wrote: > On Friday 11 June 2004 22:30, Micha Feigin wrote: > > >> It has a few characteristics > >> relateing to this: if some part of kde in 'testing' has may bugs, and > >> this cases kde to not function, the whole of kde is removed from > >> 'testing'. So, groups of packages can be moved in and out as things > >> get fixed in 'testing'. But as 'testing' gets closer to being > >> 'stable', in tends to have less big shift like this. But the idea is > >> that if you NEED kde, all you can do is wait until things are fixed. > >> This can be a few days or a few months. > >> > >> With unstable, things are being put in all the time and it does not > >> have the hugh package shift like 'testing'. Also, bug fixes reported > >> in unstable or testing get put into the next unstable package. > >> > > > > Unstable gets new packages all the time. Most problems that appear > > there though are when the program has had major changes or there was a > > change in the packaging scheme and then some packages may not be > > installable for several days and in such cases if the package is > > already installed you won't be able to update it until things are > > fixed, but everything already installed will continue to function, you > > just need to watch the upgrades to make sure aptitude is not trying to > > remove something you need and just wait with updates until its fixed > > or hold the packages which have problems at the current version until > > things are ok (the = under aptitude). > > So are there any practical disadvantages to running unstable instead of > testing? >
>From as far as I understood the question should be the other way around and the answer is yes, you don't get security upgrades and bug fixes as fast in testing, they can take a couple of weeks or more to filter from unstable to testing (including fixing broken packages). > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
