2 questions:1 should I keep my Debian in stable or go fully to Testing?2 how crazy is the experience with Debian testing?
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2 questions:
1 should I keep my Debian in stable or go fully to Testing?
2 how crazy is the experience with Debian testing?
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2 questions:
1 should I keep my Debian in stable or go fully to Testing?
2 how crazy is the experience with Debian testing?
@NullTheFool in my experience, debian testing gets you software that is reasonably up-to-date and breakages are relatively uncommon.
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2 questions:
1 should I keep my Debian in stable or go fully to Testing?
2 how crazy is the experience with Debian testing?
@NullTheFool I've been running a mix of unstable and testing for years across multiple machines. It tends to be the best combination between freshness and stability, but you do have to be mindful of the occasional breakage, generally in correspondence with major upgrades of large or baseline (i.e. with lots of dependants) software. I usually rely on aptitude in console to manage such updates, since the resolvers don't always do a good job.
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@NullTheFool I've been running a mix of unstable and testing for years across multiple machines. It tends to be the best combination between freshness and stability, but you do have to be mindful of the occasional breakage, generally in correspondence with major upgrades of large or baseline (i.e. with lots of dependants) software. I usually rely on aptitude in console to manage such updates, since the resolvers don't always do a good job.
@NullTheFool (aptitude is very useful to upgrade individual pieces of a system and provisionally skip over the ones that cause breakage until said breakage isn't fixed)
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@NullTheFool in my experience, debian testing gets you software that is reasonably up-to-date and breakages are relatively uncommon.
@aeva Yeah that's what I'm looking for, I like Debian stability don't get me wrong, but I would like me some KDE updates too
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@aeva Yeah that's what I'm looking for, I like Debian stability don't get me wrong, but I would like me some KDE updates too
@NullTheFool you will probably be happy with debian testing then
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@NullTheFool (aptitude is very useful to upgrade individual pieces of a system and provisionally skip over the ones that cause breakage until said breakage isn't fixed)
@oblomov Oh, so I should install aptitude to update exclusively so I avoid breaking my system?
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@oblomov Oh, so I should install aptitude to update exclusively so I avoid breaking my system?
@NullTheFool I use aptitude for all my package management needs, but it's particularly useful to manage complex updates because it allows you better review what's happening and control individual package installation/uninstallation/hold, showing you all the conflicts etc. This doesn't necessarily save you from all cases of system breakages on upgrade, but it can help manage a class of them.