Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 08:45:27 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >Yeah, I gave the (overly) simplified set of warnings. I'm sure we can all come up with so many different scenarios that this could run and run if we let it. Suffice to say, there are always exceptions that prove the rule. Lik

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Greg Wooledge
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

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Sven Hartge
Greg Wooledge wrote: > YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. > If you use one of these, you use that one only. No mixing. > No Frankendebians. But you *can* mix Unstable with Testing. (Not the order here.) Normally no package from Testing will get pulled in, but sometimes this is the only way

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > If one uses sites such as spotify or amazon video to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > >...but why on earth would you want to do THAT? Eeeek... ;-) Brad Rogers wrote: > *I* don't; It's the kids. I wonder whether there is a Debian Developer willing to create a package which in

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 12:14:00 +0200 wrote: Hello to...@tuxteam.de, >...but why on earth would you want to do THAT? Eeeek... ;-) *I* don't; It's the kids. Honest. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Where will

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 10:52:16AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:40:53 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Hello Greg, > > >YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING. > > > >YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE. > > > >YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. > > By and large, I agree. >

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:40:53 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: Hello Greg, >YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING. > >YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE. > >YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. By and large, I agree. I would add a few caveats, though. If one uses sites such as spotify or amazon video,

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-04 Thread tomas
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 03:40:53PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] > YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING. > > YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE. > > YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. Wow. I'd rather say: you do not "do not". Know the downsides, know what can break, and then, when it's

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread Joe
On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 15:40:53 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:35:32PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > Debian web page about testing is saying that testing gets infrequent > > security updates > > It's more accurate to say that testing does not get ANY security > updates. Not

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:54:37PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > yes sorry, I realized I made an error and should have typed > bullseye for main and unstable for security updates just after pressing > send. > but you say not to do that ? Correct. If you want to run unstable, just run unstable.

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread mick crane
On 2019-10-03 20:40, Greg Wooledge wrote: YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH TESTING. YOU DO NOT MIX STABLE WITH UNSTABLE. YOU DO NOT MIX TESTING WITH UNSTABLE. If you use one of these, you use that one only. No mixing. No Frankendebians. https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian yes sorry, I reali

Re: testing security updates

2019-10-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Oct 03, 2019 at 08:35:32PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > Debian web page about testing is saying that testing gets infrequent > security updates It's more accurate to say that testing does not get ANY security updates. Not in any realistic sense. Packages migrate from unstable into testing,

Re: Testing security

2003-01-10 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 12:12:04PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:48:03 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.24.1538 > > +0100]: > > > Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice

Re: Testing security

2003-01-10 Thread Richard Kimber
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002 15:48:03 +0100 martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.24.1538 > +0100]: > > Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice. > > testing has no security updates, at least not yet. if you are worr

Re: Testing security

2002-12-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.12.24.1538 +0100]: > Where does this leave testing? Some statement would have been nice. testing has no security updates, at least not yet. if you are worried, install the unstable version. -- Please do not CC me! Mutt (www.mutt.org) can hand