Il 25/05/24 17:25, Frank ha scritto:
I've been running a 'pure' testing since 2008. No sid or stable in sight.
You have a point, I should have specified better what I meant.
I tried running pure Debian testing too, but, in my case, given the way
I use my system, I soon realized that testing wasn't enough for me and I
found that APT pinning was there just for strange peolple like me who
need some bit more than what a pure Debian testing has to offer.
So, in my case a pure Debian testing is not enough and it seems I'm not
alone, since someone out there invented APT pinning and someone even
uses it.
I wrote:
> testing is not a complete distro, in that you *need* to add stable
> and/or sid in order to actually use it
Let's rephrase that:
Sometimes it happens some packages get automatically removed from Debian
testing (for example because of rc-bugs), so if you ever need one of
those packages that have been removed, you can only wait for it to be
added back, or mix stable/unstable (or install from upstream, but that's
even worse).
In other words, assuming "completeness" means having all the packaged
software that others Debian flavors have, sometimes it happens Debian
testing isn't complete. It happened to me in the past, so I mixed in
stable and sid.
