David Z Maze wrote: > > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DS> On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 12:08:21AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > ES> what's the status of testing? I've noticed few remarks suggesting > ES> that it's not ready yet, i.e. not at the same level as unstable > ES> was. what's the status of testing and what is now the best choice > ES> roughly equal to what unstable used to be? I understand that it's > ES> gonna be testing later but is it later yet? > DS> > DS> Testing works great for me. IIRC, testing was originally created > DS> as a snapshot of unstable, and has been updated by its normal > DS> rules (2 weeks without problems, no unstable dependenceis, etc.) > DS> since then, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be more > DS> stable than unstable. > > It was originally created as a snapshot of *stable*, and given the > "woody" name. (This confused people who were tracking "woody", since > the current version numbers jumped backwards when this happened.) But > testing is up and running, and I've heard pretty good things about it > so far. I'm not sure what you mean by it being "at the same level" as > unstable. What unstable used to be is still unstable.
I thought the testing was created as snapshot of potato and was supposed to be brought to woody, later on functioning as almost-unstable (few weeks behind, all packages from unstable with no serious bug go into testing). however: I have set the sources for apt to testing and did update and dist-upgrade (ugg in aptitude) and saw ONLY potato level packages updated to potato! see this: ----------------------------------- ... Setting up passwd (20000902-2) ... Setting up make (3.79.1-1.potato.1) ... Setting up console-apt (0.7.7.2potato2) ... Setting up libreadlineg2 (2.1-21) ... Setting up xf86setup (3.3.6-11potato15) ... Setting up xmh (3.3.6-11potato15) ... Setting up xproxy (3.3.6-11potato15) ... Press return to continue. ------------------------------------ this is what I have in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/ testing/non-US main contrib non-free doesn't make much sense. erik
