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Re: How automatic are backport package updates?

From Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How automatic are backport package updates?
Date 2021-01-12 16:40 +0100
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Michael Grant wrote: 
> Let's say I want to run 'testing' to be more on the edge to get the latest and greatest of packages and to incrementally always be on top of updates rather than having to do large release updates.  But from time to time there is a security update to a package which is newer, or if something specific is broken, I may want to go back to a specific version of something.  What should I put in my sources.list?

Are you running a production system?

That is, are you running a Debian system which is essential to
your business or personal activities, so that having to recover
from a disaster would be a significant hardship?

If so, you should be running buster, and considering moving to
the next stable release no sooner than a few weeks after the
transition to bullseye. You should accept security updates as
soon as is convenient for you, on an ongoing basis. Backports
are to solve specific issues.

If you are running a system for fun, or if there is no real
issue with protracted unavailability, testing is a fine thing
to be running. You should expect a little chaos every time you
update.

Only stable gets security updates. Testing may get security
updates when they come from upstream, but it's not guaranteed.

-dsr-

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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
                Re: How automatic are backport package updates? "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-02-13 15:40 +0100
                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
            Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-12 21:00 +0100
        Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-11 20:30 +0100
          Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-11 21:00 +0100
            Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-01-11 22:00 +0100
              Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2021-01-12 01:20 +0100
            Re: How automatic are backport package updates? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-01-12 09:00 +0100

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