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Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable?

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On Tue, Jul 2, 2019, 05:38 Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 03:34:55PM -0400, Default User wrote:
> > What if a new Stable release introduces a major change to the existing
> > distribution technology or methodology?
> >
> > For example, a new default filesystem is introduced.  Or something like
> > systemd infects the distribution or its rate of metastasis accelerates,
> > etc.  Or an important package management system or communication protocol
> > is superseded or falls into disuse, or is simply abandoned by its
> > developers or maintainers.
> >
> > I was wondering if an existing Unstable setup could diverge so far from
> > Stable that major surgery would be necessary, or even complete
> replacement
> > with Stable, followed by conversion to contemporaneous Unstable.
>
> I think the core misunderstanding here is that you seem to be assuming
> that, when a new stable comes out, a new unstable is created to go with
> it.
>
> This is not the case.  *NOTHING* ever goes from stable into unstable.
> *EVERYTHING* in stable[1] got there by way of unstable (with a stop off
> in testing along the way).  If a major change happens in stable, then it
> already happened some months or years ago in unstable:
>
> - New filesystems start in unstable, then move to stable.
>
> - systemd for Debian was first implemented in unstable, then made its
>   way into stable.
>
> - If apt were to somehow be replaced, that process would happen in
>   unstable and the new package management tools would first appear
>   there, before migrating into stable.
>
> So, no, a new stable release would never break unstable.  Any breakage
> that may happen would be flowing in the other direction (something
> coming from unstable breaks stable), and even that is extremely rare.
>
>
> [1] ...except security updates, which have their own path into stable
> that doesn't pass through unstable, but they're not going to be
> introducing major changes anyhow.
>
> --
> Dave Sherohman
>




Okay.

This is pretty much what I was thinking, and is as expected.

Thank you to those who gave helpful, constructive replies.

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    Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2019-07-01 21:40 +0200
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        Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-02 10:40 +0200
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        Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-07-02 09:20 +0200
      Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2019-07-02 11:40 +0200
        Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? Default User <hunguponcontent@gmail.com> - 2019-07-02 18:30 +0200
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            Re: How Buster release may affect Unstable? Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org> - 2019-07-08 09:50 +0200
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