On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:35:18PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 16:35:18 +0800 > From: Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: negative vote for maintainer Michael Gilbert > To: [email protected] > > On 01/05/2012 09:33 AM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Unstable is, well, unstable, yikes! > > > > FYI, unstable means *changes* often, not *breaks* often. > Issues in it are *not* a normal thing. >
Actually, unstable means both in Debian. Historically, you expect stable to not change and not break, testing to change some and not break, and unstable to change often and not always work properly. The nickname for unstable is "SID" - still in development, not beta, not gold. From the Debian website[1]: "sid" is subject to massive changes and in-place library updates. This can result in a very "unstable" system which contains packages that cannot be installed due to missing libraries, dependencies that cannot be fulfilled etc. Use it at your own risk! Pat [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/sid/ -- Patrick Ouellette [email protected] ne4po (at) arrl (dot) net Amateur Radio: NE4PO What kind of change have you been in the world today? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
