Ubuntu's unstable vs Debian unstable

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe tshepang at gmail.com
Fri Dec 2 07:42:11 UTC 2005


> > I'm not. I like Debian 'testing' except when it has missing and broken
> > packages (like it does now) so I switched to Debian 'unstable'. This
> > is very recent and so far/therefore I haven't experienced much
> > trouble. I was wondering about an alternative switch to Dapper
> > 'unstable'.
> >
>
> Wait, wait, wait...
>
> You say testing is too broken, so you went to unstable?
>
> unstable is by design more broken than testing, right?  I believe they
> have to be stable enough in unstable before they get moved to testing.

By design, but not at the moment... and I don't like mixing them.
There's too many missing packages in testing, but of course there are
excellent reasons why and that means I'm not against it at all (don't
mistaken me). Anyways, Sid, here I come.




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