Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-12 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 11 iul 21, 06:54:31, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > While your testing + stable as needed mix is pretty simple[1] the > > reverse mix stable + select packages from testing requires adequate > > pinning and can quickly become problematic for

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-11 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-11 at 03:31, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 14:38:39, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> It depends :) >>> >>> In my opinion I'd say the order from less to more dangerous >>> would be: >>> >>> 1. stable + select packages from

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 iul 21, 14:38:39, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > > > >> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here > >>

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 13:48:12 -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support > > Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to Almost, for most of the time and in normal circumstances.. It

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sat, Jul 10, 2021 at 01:48:12PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote: > Thank you for the detailed response, Andrei. > > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support > > Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to >

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian Thompson
Thank you for the detailed response, Andrei. On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 21:18 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >    Testing doesn't have any direct security support Is that 100% true? I was originally referring to http://security.debian.org/debian-security/dists/testing-security when I was talking about

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Brian
On Sat 10 Jul 2021 at 14:38:39 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > I'm a little surprised to see that you don't even mention the mix which > I've been running for the last decade-plus: stable + testing, which Most likely an oversight. -- Brian.

Re: Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread The Wanderer
On 2021-07-10 at 14:18, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > >> On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: >> >>> Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here >> >> Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? > > It

Un/Safe mixtures for Debian releases and suites [was: Re: Vulkan with Radeon RX 5700 XT]

2021-07-10 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 10 iul 21, 06:51:43, Brian Thompson wrote: > On Sat, 2021-07-10 at 13:43 +0200, tv.deb...@googlemail.com wrote: > > Hi, Debian unstable with bits of experimental here > > Is it (usually) wise to intermix different suites? It depends :) In my opinion I'd say the order from less to more