On Du, 24 oct 21, 20:21:49, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 24 Oct 2021 at 13:43:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> 
> > westlake writes:
> > > 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages
> > > have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package.
> > 
> > Packages migrate from Unstable (Sid) to Testing when they have been in
> > Unstable for ten days with no serious bugs being filed and when all
> > dependencies can be satisfied.
> > 
> > > sid is more for development and requires a special setup with
> > > snapshots or a chroot environment.
> > 
> > I've been using Unstable ever since it was created and have never needed
> > to do this.
> 
> Ditto. I have never come across this requirement.

That was probably a bit too specific, I'd reword that as "some fallback 
is highly recommended".

Kind regards,
Andrei
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