On Sunday 15 March 2015 11:50:11 慕冬亮 wrote: > On 03/15/2015 07:37 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Sunday 15 March 2015 04:41:00 慕冬亮 wrote: > >> So If I use "stable" instead of "Jessie" or "Wheezy" , I will have a > >> rolling release like "archlinux" or "gentoo"! > >> Is it ??? > > > > Not "stable", no. If you use "testing" instead of a code name you will > > Why ?? I can't understand ! > > > effectively have a rolling release, but it will be a very rocky ride for > > about a month after Jessie becomes Stable. > > > > Lisi > > I don't understand it clearly ! > I have an simple understanding of Debian development mode ! > Jessie ------>> (after a frozen time) > testing stable > > I think if I use "stable" or "testing" ,I will sync with corresponding > version , is it ? > This is like the rolling version ! > So I don't what the problem is !!!
Here goes, for what it is worth. Someone will correct me if I get it wrong. Stable is stable. It sits there, more or less unchanged (except for security updates), until the next Testing is ready and becomes Stable, in one jump, and the previous Stable becomes Old Stable. Stable (the new one) then just sits there until .. etc. etc. Testing gets updated, and the new software moves up, as it becomes available, until Testing goes into freeze. So it rolls. More or less. Except when it freezes. While Testing is in freeze, the new software that would normally have moved up as it was ready, sits in Sid (Unstable). When Jessie becomes Stable, Testing will no longer be frozen and all the software queued in Sid will come up at once. Hence the brief turmoil. It will then settle down to new software moving up as it is ready, until the next freeze. Testing is always Testing. It does not become Stable. A version (Jessie next) goes from Testing to Stable, but Testing itself still exists and continues to roll. It does not get replaced. Stable gets effectively replaced. Does that help at all? Lisi Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201503151210.26000.lisi.re...@gmail.com
