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Re: Debian's branches and release model

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Peter Hoist wrote: 
> I am enjoying Debian's testing branch as a reasonably stable and up-to-date
> 'rolling' release

That's not what it is.

> , and I have to say it satisfies all my desires, almost.
> So the question is, why not cut a release branch every two years, and at
> the same time keep the unstable/testing alive? Is it because debian
> developers think it's too much work to reconcile the differences later, so
> they prefer freezing?

The thing is this: testing is not a rolling release. It is not a
release. It is a process which will result in a release.

Testing is the pile of packages that managed to stay 10 days in unstable
without a new major bug, without making the system [more] uninstallable,
and didn't fail to build for any release architecture.

Eventually, work is done to make testing into a release. That process is
a set of freezes over several months, which allows developers to see what
needs to be fixed immediately. The final freeze produces a stable release.

>From the wiki page:

  Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the
  worst security update speed. Don't prefer testing if security is
  a concern. 

Basically, you're getting lucky. You should not depend on it.

-dsr-

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Debian's branches and release model Peter Hoist <petershoist@gmail.com> - 2021-10-18 18:40 +0200
  Re: Debian's branches and release model Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-10-18 19:20 +0200
    Re: Debian's branches and release model harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-10-18 21:00 +0200
      Re: Debian's branches and release model Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-18 21:40 +0200
        Re: Debian's branches and release model harryweaver@tutanota.com - 2021-10-19 00:00 +0200
  Re: Debian's branches and release model Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-10-18 19:50 +0200
  Re: Debian's branches and release model Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-10-19 08:40 +0200
    Re: Debian's branches and release model Peter Hoist <petershoist@gmail.com> - 2021-10-19 17:10 +0200
      Re: Debian's branches and release model Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-10-19 21:30 +0200

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