On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 04:42:16PM +1000, Mark Devin wrote: > What about "testing"? Is that reasonably stable enough in your opinion, or > would I be just playing with fire? Especially given that I have significantly > less experience than you.
One very important thing to remember about testing is that it's the absolute last of the 3 branches to get security updates. potato is actually often the first, since that's what critical systems are expected to be running and it's the one that we're expected to support. Unstable gets the updates next, because at some point the package maintainer will upload a new version which includes the fixes. However, testing can't get the security fix until it's been in unstable for some time. If the maintainer sets the update to a high priority then it will reach testing in as little as a week or so, but only if it works on all supported platforms and doesn't break other packages. Packages from security.debian.org won't be installed into testing by apt-get, because even though they might be "newer", they still are an older version of the package, merely patched to fix the security problem. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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