Each package in "stable" and "development" version?

Each package in "stable" and "development" version?

Posted Mar 2, 2006 20:47 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458)
In reply to: What ja where "stable" is? by ebirdie
Parent article: Testing the bleeding edge

No.

For a simple reason: Everything at "stable" is one distribution (stable version), everything at "experimental" is another (development version). Giving each indivual package a stable/development knob gives you not two but an almost infinite number of alternatives... What if OOo-stable breaks with glibc-development? And so on.

OTOH, sometimes in a distro there is a limited form of this, in form of "try this one if the vanilla version breaks" packages and development snapshots for tryout.

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