Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

From	Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: How automatic are backport package updates?
Date	2021-01-09 07:00 +0100
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On Vi, 08 ian 21, 23:21:32, Gregg Nemas wrote:
> Micha,
> 
> Thanks for your efforts.
> 
> I am considering switching to Debian Stable from Fedora (which no
> longer supports 32-bit systems) and was wondering whether Debian
> Stable + Backports might be a reasonable approximation.

Availability in backports of any given package from testing is subject 
to Someone (not necessarily the "regular" Maintainer) doing the work. 
There is no guarantee.

In practice several important packages are updated quite regularly: 
linux, systemd, etc.

You might want to check the history of specific packages you are 
interested in at https://tracker.debian.org.

> The only other
> 32-bit choices seem to be the rolling distributions Tumbleweed and
> Archlinux32 (which does not seem to be getting updated much), or
> switching to Debian Unstable.

Debian unstable can be quite usable, provided that you are willing to 

  1. Invest the time to familiarise yourself with APT and friends (dpkg, 
  aptitude, apt-listbugs, etc.), the Debian Bug Tracking System (BTS), 
  etc.

  2. Can deal with unexpected issues, ranging from some package randomly 
  crashing to an unbootable system (rare, but does happen).

After all, unstable users are something like beta testers for the 
distribution ;)

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-09 07:00 +0100
  Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Thorsten Glaser <t.glaser@tarent.de> - 2021-01-09 15:00 +0100
    Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-10 10:10 +0100
      Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-01-11 14:10 +0100
        Re: How automatic are backport package updates? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-01-11 16:40 +0100
          Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-01-12 16:30 +0100
            Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-12 16:40 +0100
              Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-01-12 17:10 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-01-12 17:30 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-12 20:30 +0100
              Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-02-12 18:10 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-02-12 18:20 +0100
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                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-02-13 16:50 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-02-13 17:40 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-02-13 18:00 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-13 18:10 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-13 18:30 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-13 18:30 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-13 18:00 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Grant <mgrant@grant.org> - 2021-02-13 18:20 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-15 14:30 +0100
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-02-16 10:20 +0100
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