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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 04:05:31PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 15:18:02 -0500
> JW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> <snip - new user administering Debian co-lo>
>
> > I was reading the security FAQ and am somewhat alarmed to find (if I
> > understand correctly) that Testing is not actively supported by the
> > security team. Youch. If I could put stable on it I would, but for the
> > reasons stated above I can't.
>
> 'Testing' is not actively supported, correct until you near release
> time. Sarge has entered a freeze for the base packages, is in that 'near
> release time' phase and is now getting security updates along with the
> current 'Stable' (Woody). Sarge is expected to be released as the new
> stable 'any day now'.
>
> <snip>
Hi Folks,
I can echo what Jacob said. there is only one release of debian: stable.
testing is not a distrabusion--its just for folks testing stuff that at
some point will go into stable. things can pop-in and pop-out
unextectedly like all of kde. unstable is a pseudo-distro where you just
get an influx of the latest packages. Things go reasonable smoothly in unstable but
there are times when a few packages get broken and you may need to
backtrack something or WAIT until folks say its OK to upgrade.
But there is something to note: testing goes through stages. After a
release testing is the same as the new stable. After a few months
testing is then all mixed up with all new stuff. Then as things get more
tested, testing become 'near' stable. Which is how it is now. At this
point Debian starts to add security updates for testing/the next stable.
This is sometimes called the 'frozen' release. And after some release
critical issues: stable is born.
also there are two ways to track debian: via release names(sarge) or via
distributions(testing).
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