daggs wrote: > I'm thinking of migrating my main server to Debian, I need stability and > recent version of small number of pkgs. > in addition I need to recompile with a out of tree patch. > I had Debian stable before but replaced it because upgrade broke the system > and the versions used for the mentioned above set of pkgs were too old for > what I need. > I know that Testing has more recent pkgs version but I don't know how stable > is it.
Don't do it for a server facing the Internet. Testing does not have timely security support by concept. Also by concept, it is of course not stable in the sense of Debian stable distribution, it is more like a rolling release distribution. On my desktop, I currently use the testing distribution, but I install Internet facing applications like browser and mail directly from the vendor, not from Debian's repository. For example, Firefox and Chromium often get security patches very late in Debian testing.
