A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian

Posted Oct 5, 2010 13:31 UTC (Tue) by BackSeat (guest, #1886)
In reply to: A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian by ummmwhat
Parent article: A constantly usable testing distribution for Debian

If upstream releases a new stable version, then assume it's a _stable_ version and thus _immediately_ include it as an update to the stable distribution.

The reason we run Debian Stable on a large number of servers is precisely because Debian does not make such assumptions.

That sort of thing may be OK for a desktop distribution, but when running customer critical applications on a server in a data centre, stability and security are far more important than "the latest version".