stable-backports and stable-updates

Posted Aug 29, 2025 15:51 UTC (Fri) by cpacejo (subscriber, #153871)
In reply to: testing is for actually testing. unstable is for users who want the bleeding edge by alx.manpages
Parent article: Lucky 13: a look at Debian trixie

Indeed, stable-backports is a safer option for those who want "stable, but with specific packages pulled from testing": <https://wiki.debian.org/Backports>

And stable-updates is more conservative still, pulling only from the next point release: <https://wiki.debian.org/StableUpdates>