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Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

From harryweaver@tutanota.com
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid
Date 2021-10-24 20:40 +0200
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25 Oct 2021, 04:03 by joe@jretrading.com:

> On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 02:59:19 -0400
> westlake <westlake2012@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>> 'testing' is more safe to use as it is the branch used where packages 
>> have been pulled (from sid) after some reviewing of the package.
>>
>> sid is more for development and requires a special setup with
>> snapshots or a chroot environment.
>>
>
> It depends. I've just retired a fifteen-year-old sid, used pretty much
> daily (upgraded pretty much daily), and never done any of this. 
>
> I do have more than one computer...
>
+1
Ran Libranet for a couple of years, when XP came out in 2001, then switched to SID and been running with that since.
Never had a problem that wasn't resolved within 24 hours, and had plenty to go on with in the meantime.
No special requirements at all.
Cheers!

Harry.

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Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Ashish Kujur <ashish.kujur2@protonmail.com> - 2021-10-24 06:30 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid westlake <westlake2012@videotron.ca> - 2021-10-24 09:10 +0200
    Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2021-10-24 20:10 +0200
      Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-10-24 20:40 +0200
    Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-10-24 21:00 +0200
      Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-24 21:30 +0200
        Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-25 07:40 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-24 09:40 +0200
  Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-10-24 13:10 +0200

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