On Thu July 22 2010 11:28:49 Neil Williams wrote: > Removing packages from testing does not remove them from any existing > installation, so it's hard to see how the removal of packages which are > plainly not suitable for release in stable supports an assertion that > testing is somehow not intended for real users.
Real users have to be able to recreate a dead system or install new systems at any time. We actually have a few Testing packages (e.g. WordPress) in our mostly-Stable servers and we backup copies of those Testing packages both on-site and off-site against the vagaries of the Testing masters. We used to use Testing for desktops and laptops, but the hassle of disappearing packages was not worth it. In practice this means we cannot use Debian on most desktops and laptops until the hardware is about a year old. There's seldom any point in changing distros then although I'm actually using Mostly-Stable on my own laptop so that it matches our servers. Mostly-Stable is great for (most) servers though. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201007221213.41351.mgb-deb...@yosemite.net