On Monday 25 January 2016 23:12:09 Francis Gerund wrote: > > I don't feel like testing, unstable, etc. should be only for the > nobles, and denied to the mere peasants (like me).
It isn't "only for the nobles". It's for everybody. But they _are_ Testing and Unstable and you have to be prepared to cope. If you want a quiet life, you use Stable. > I have read/heard all the warnings about system breakage. I do back > up my data. And I can reinstall if necessary. > > I have begun to suspect that the Debian "powers that be" deliberately > don't make upgrading to testing/unstable/experimental clear and easy, > in order to discourage people from doing it. Speculating upon the > reasons that might be is left as an exercise for the reader . . . Nonsense! I did a simple Google search using "how to upgrade Debian stable to Debian testing" and got a lot of relevant hits, the top of which was: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting The Debian powers that be cannot be blamed if you omit to use Google. And many of us dist-upgrade (well, full-upgrade in my case - I use aptitude and am in that habit) regularly anyway, even when staying put, just to keep our machines tidied up. You certainly have to do so to move up a release. Lisi
