-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 18 March 2004 18:35, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Say you have package A that makes it past unstable and into testing. > Then someone finds a bug in package A. It turns out to be an icky bug, > and it takes quite a while to fix it. The bug will be fixed in unstable > before trickling down into testing. > > Also, look at security updates. Updates are provided for stable and > unstable almost immediately. Then those using testing distributions > must wait the allotted amount of time before receiving the unstable > update in testing. > > It is true that packages go from experimental (not a distribution) to > unstable to testing to stable. > > It is not true that stability/usability increases as you go from > unstable to testing to stable.
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. When I do change from Sarge on my dev. machine, I may go to unstable ... or make it a mixed machine. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2-rc1-SuSE (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAWkwXjeziQOokQnARAt6HAJ40dTuuizcouB5s862ZEOL11G0VbACgr+bW 51lCvhzem9Dk4Q9M+SCcZ5Y= =Yby0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
