On Tue, Sep 24, 2002, Steve Lindsay wrote: > A question for debian-ites. Is there much value in tracking debian > testing? > > I was thinking that it might be a nice way to stay relatively up to > date with new software (compared to stable), not _too_ risky in terms > of stability (compared to unstable), and not too hard on the dialup > connection (compared to unstable).
I started running unstable after testing froze for woody. But I quite liked tracking testing, unstable has been known to break things like ssh, lilo and apache (well, it is "unstable") which was annoying even on my absolutely non-critical desktop. > Based on such impeccable reasoning I updated my sources.list to point > at testing and the updates were 178mb! (on my connection this is a > loooong download) I understand that it has been a while since woody > was released so there will have been plenty of updates to catch up > with but are changes to testing usually added at such a rate that I'm > going to be up for big updates like this on a regular basis? My modem > is still sore. Packages go into testing once they've been in unstable for a little while (a week or so?) and no critical bugs have been reported. So it depends how often you update. The packages will change a little less often than unstable, but will change fairly frequently. Update once a month, and it will be well over 100MB each time. Update more often, and it will only be 5-10MB as Erik said. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
