On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 04:11:58PM +0100, Felix Natter wrote: > hi, > > what is the consensus about using stable (s/testing/jessie/g in > sources.list) for maintaining Debian packages (in conjunction with a sid > VM or a chroot to make sure it always builds)?
Packages targeted for sid must always be built and tested using a sid
environment. Nothing prevents you from using a machine running stable with
pbuilder/cowbuilder to build packages for unstable. You will also need some
up to date chroot or a virtual machine to test your packages before upload.
> The problem with testing is that I spend >2-3 hours a week backing up
> data, apt-get dist-upgrade and making sure things work (the last update
> caused an xserver-xorg-video-intel issue). Futhermore, this machine
> shouldn't break, since I only have one work/development machine.
>
> My packages seem to allow that - I'd only need to backport a few libs.
Don't build packages targeted for sid using such a mix of stable/testing
and/or backported packages.
Best regards,
Jan Dittberner
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