On 24 January 2018 at 16:19, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 03:49:08PM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > If you can be sid and experimental together then I guess [...] > > Experimental is not a release. You can't "be experimental". It is > merely a place where individual packages are uploaded, when they are > considered "not ready to be in unstable yet". > > Typically the package maintainer EXPECTS these packages to have bugs, > and wants focused help from people who are familiar with the package > to find and squish them. Or, the package may be uploaded in a "known > broken" condition because it could still be useful in highly specialized > circumstances, where the new features outweigh the known bugs. > > The packages in experimental do NOT automatically migrate into unstable > or testing. They are not part of the normal package lifecycle. > > To use a package from experimental, you must download it directly, and > install it directly. You don't use apt or its cousins, unless it's > to backfill dependencies (apt-get -f install) from your actual release. > Does that mean you use dpkg -i to ibstall it then? Cheers MF
