Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

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On 04/02/07 16:53, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
---- Wei Chen wrote:
So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use.
Testing is the best choice because it is neither too dangerous
nor too old.

What do you think about adding a new release type maybe called
"current"? Then our release structure would look like this:

-------------
| Unstable |------
------------- |
| |
| |
----------- |
| Testing | |
----------- |
| |
-------------------- |
| | |
---------- -----------
| Stable | | Current |
---------- -----------

Current would get both security and feature updates. We could
advertise this as the perfect blend of stability and up-to-date
software. Immediately after a release, Current would lag behind
Testing so it would be more stable. Conversely, during the freeze
we might be able to pull some packages from Unstable.

I am pretty new to Debian so I am sure there are a thousand
reasons why the above is a bad idea, or just too hard to
implement. But it seems like it's worth discussing. And before
anyone gives me a hard time let me say, "I am not complaining".

That's called http://www.backports.org and Debian doesn't do it
because it would be just that much more work on top of the already
difficult task of getting Testing turned into Stable.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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