On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:12:24 +0000, Calum Mackay
<calum.mackay@???> wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>> Do. Not. Use. Debian. Testing. Or. Unstable. On. A. System. With. An.
>> Internet. Connection.
>>
>> Until you know _exactly_ what you're doing.
>
>Somewhat off-topic, but would you care to explain that comment?
Unstable - hence the name - is the unstable development version. It
might break any time, has done so multiple times in the past, and you
need to closely follow unstable since you don't get security
advisories for packages in unstable.
Testing is an unreleased testing version. A package migrates from
unstable to testing if all its dependencies can be satisfied in
testing, and a certain number of days has passed without a release
critical bug showing. In the past, it has happened for multiple times
that a package fixing a security relevant bug didn't migrate to
testing for months due to dependency problems, leaving the vulnerable
version in testing.
You don't want either on a productive system. If you want timely
security updates and advisories, use stable, and backport the packages
you need in later versions yourself. That way, you'll know which
packages to follow security-wise.
Greetings
Marc
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