> From: songb...@anthive.com > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > 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).
between sid and experimental it is only a pound sign move from one source line to the next. An update will satisfy your curiosity without an upgrade. Last I checked there were only 2-3 kernels that were under experimentation, nothing else different from my sid installation. Do I care to mess around with linux-rc ? Not really, so I just went back. Possibly after stretch stability there may be a ton of stuff. By the way, 4.12 was announced as stable and there is no 4.13 yet. https://www.kernel.org/ > songbird
