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 -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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