[Gllug] unstable

Ben Whyte ben at whyte-systems.co.uk
Tue Jan 23 16:58:44 UTC 2007


> =-=-=-
> [1] General Debian version hint:
>   For an easy life, one should stick with testing rather than unstable (if
>   stable's too out of date for you), since packages in testing are almost
>   as up to date as those in unstable, but using them is much less likely
>   to result in you experiencing breakage due to new buggy uploads (which
>   should be caught before the migrate from unstable to testing).
>
>   
Be aware though, that should something break in Testing it takes a lot 
longer typically to get fixed than in unstable.

And also you can get all sorts of issues when major version changes 
happen in things like gcc and X.

Ben
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