Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 10:15 -0500, Grok Mogger wrote:
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:

So, if you leave your sources.list with "testing" then after the
release, you will continue to see package upgrades as things move from
unstable to testing. If you use "etch" then when Etch becomes stable,
you will only see security updates.

Regards,

-Roberto


Wait, so stable only gets security updates? What if there's a
bug in a package, will it get a fix? And I guess just to finish
off my questionnaire, do packages in stable ever get upgrades
for additional functionality?

If stable only gets security updates, then I find it rather
funny that I know someone running a Debian system with a custom
perl script designed to get only security updates via apt-get.
Was this script a total waste of his time?

In general YES, a complete waste of time. cron-apt can be configured any
number of ways. And since Stable on gets "security" updates and doesn't
change ABIs or APIs.

But I really doubt, someone would goto ALL that works when something
like cron-apt is available and works wonders.
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