On Thu, Dec 02, 2021 at 09:26:43AM +0100, daggs wrote: > Greetings Christian, > > > Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2021 at 11:51 PM > > From: "Christian Britz" <[email protected]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: stability level of testing > > > > Hello daggs, > > > > daggs wrote: > > > there will be 2 main facing the Internet connection, server's upgrade and > > > the router vm. > > > the rest is internal > > > > Routing other computers to the internet, firewalling and so on? I > > personally would not do this with the testing distribution, remember, it > > has no timely security support. > > > > Current Debian stable 11 ("Bullseye") has not so old software and good > > security support, consider using it for a server. You can search for > > software versions using packages.debian.org > > > > Good luck, > > Christian > > > > > > the main pkgs I need are qemu, kernel and libvirt. my router is inside a vm. > in stable, kernel is 5.10, although 5.15 is latest stable, I can live with > 5.10 > however, qemu is 5.2 and libvirt is 7.0.0, these are major downgrades for me, > I cannot use them.
They're usable and stable: you can use them, but choose not to, maybe. > > I was using debian stable before, I've ended up removing it because I had a > bug and the fix was in newer incompatible versions. Did you try asking on the lists about the bug / fixes - maybe ask the maintainers? > also the one time I've upgraded the system, it broke my vms. > Broke how? A Debian stable system update shouldn't "just break" VMs. Or did you "upgrade" from stable -> testing or stable -> unstable? That's not necessarily an "upgrade" in terms of expected stability/lack of package churn. > Thanks, > > Dagg > All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater
