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Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid

From John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Held Back Packages on Debian Sid
Date 2021-10-24 21:00 +0200
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westlake writes:
> '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.

Packages migrate from Unstable (Sid) to Testing when they have been in
Unstable for ten days with no serious bugs being filed and when all
dependencies can be satisfied.

> sid is more for development and requires a special setup with
> snapshots or a chroot environment.

I've been using Unstable ever since it was created and have never needed
to do this.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@sugarbit.com
Elmwood, WI USA

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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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