Wrote Jeff Waugh on Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 01:37:24AM +1100:
> > Chuck Dale wrote:
> >
> > And the new security holes introduced by new features? New bugs? Never!
>
> Bugs in the distribution, or the software? It makes little difference.
>
> potato contains *conservatively* new software. Not bleeding edge. It's been
> tried and tested upstream and within the iterative development process of
> 'unstable'. Certainly, after going through that, most distribution bugs will
> be sorted out. That much use would (again hopefully) indicate decent testing
> of the actual software.
Bleeding edge, whatever, new features introduce new bugs that didn't
exist before. The Debian wonder-machine might find most of them.
> > > > No matter how good Debian is, there are still going to be less problems
> > > > introduced by not upgrading than by upgrading.
> > >
> > > Always, or for small values thereof?
> >
> > If I'm not upgrading then I can't have a problem. Yes?
>
> Well, for a start, you're going to be back-porting security fixes yourself!
With Debian, yes, looks like it.
Chuck
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