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Distribution quote of the week

pabs — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 02:54:20 +0000

Here is a hack to pull in security updates from Debian unstable on Debian testing, I'm using it for several years now:

https://bugs.debian.org/725934

Please note that it relies on the tireless efforts of Salvatore Bonaccorso (carnil) and the rest of the Debian security team in order to label each security update done by the package maintainers as they come in.

Distribution quote of the week

jezuch — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 17:38:47 +0000

And I've been a happy testing user for almost 20 years now. It's always been "bleeding edge enough" for me :) (the lack of security support is worrying but any fixes should sooner or later trickle down from unstable anyway)

Distribution quote of the week

emorrp1 — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 17:09:14 +0000

I am a happy stable+backports user and keeping an eye on "fasttrack", I think the perception of Debian as "stale" is just outdated. It's an unchanging base system with multiple mechanisms to get the latest software - crucially every user has a different idea about which packages should be latest. Even the "move fast, break things and test in CI" advocating devs use things like lock files and don't like change further down the stack that they don't control. Backports should be expanded even more and be even easier to request from end-users.