Omer Zak wrote: > On Sat, 2005-10-08 at 10:54 +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > >>Quoting Omer Zak, from the post of Sat, 08 Oct: >> >>>Today I upgraded my laptop from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch. >> >>I warned you against it, didn't I? Etch isfor developpers and will give >>you many dependency headaches. > > > Yes, you warned me. > > I neglected to ask for clarification previously, so I'll ask now. I was > under the impression that Debian Unstable is for developers, as it has > no guarantees about the quality of packages. However, Debian Testing is > meant for packages, which were tested and are supposed to be stable. > > This was the situation for Debian Sarge, before it was turned into > stable. Are the roles of Unstable and Testing reversed for Etch?
The names of Debian's flavors represent the package archive. Unstable - changes a lot. Stable doesn't change at all. Testing gets packages from unstable 10 days after the package has entered unstable, unless it has RC bugs or dependency problems. You talk about sarge, during the preparations for it to become stable, so it was really got a lot of attention to make sure it's really stable. Now, testing is a bit less important, and unstable gets all the attention, since many changes go on there. Testing, is now just a mild version on unstable. Look at it as a place which filters broken packages from unstable. It is the same as it was for Sarge, but Debian isn't near to a release, so that's exactly the time to have unstable with all the new things which could break stuff. I use unstable for two reasons: 1. I really enjoy the new stuff, and it doesn't break many things. 2. when building packages - you must build them for unstable (unless it a fix for stable). -- Lior Kaplan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.Guides.co.il Debian GNU/Linux unstable (SID) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
