On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Also, currently, digikam is not in testing. No big deal, I have it > installed and working. *However* if I had just installed testing, I > would get digikam from stable, because I use it daily, and can't do > certain things without it.
Yeah, I gave the (overly) simplified set of warnings. You can't "run stable but cherry-pick from testing". A lot of people want to do that. It cannot be done safely, at least not by someone who isn't an expert. (Use backports instead!) But you *can* run testing and cherry-pick from stable (sometimes). Or, you can run stable and cherry-pick from oldstable (sometimes). It requires some knowledge and carries some risk. It's mostly a matter of understanding that you are running the *newest* of whichever set of branches you mix. If you have some packages from stable, and some packages from unstable, you are running unstable. It doesn't matter whether it's 99% stable, or 1% stable -- it's still really unstable. You need to see it that way, or you are screwed. For *most* users, running stable, or running stable plus selected backports, is the correct choice.
