John Hasler wrote: > songbird writes: >> i've been running testing with bits from unstable and/or experimental >> for quite some time now. > > Experimental is a completely different kettle of fish.
of course. :) it is not like i'm using a lot of things from there. more like one or two items. > Unstable > contains packages that the developer hopes and expects will migrate to > Testing and end up in Stable without incident, and he's usually right. > Experimental, on the other hand, contains packages that the developer > wants people to experiment with. It is not a mistake or policy > violation to upload a package known to contain a grave bug to > Experimental. i usually check if there is a newer version there if i'm experiencing a bug in a version that is in testing or unstable to see if the newer version solves the bug. most recently it was libreoffice, but the newer version didn't make any difference so i purged it and reinstalled the testing version again (and then worked around the issue). songbird
