How stable is Debian Unstable?

Christopher Browne cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 22 02:58:23 UTC 2012


On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Wayne Armstrong
<daniel-HRJVlgn2G/y5aS82P/H3Zg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I used to, back in the days when it was rather more exciting than today.
>> (Remember when Perl broke, and forced rolling upgrades back?).  After the
>> Perl troubles, the project got more careful, and occurrences have been
>> pretty rare since.
>>
>> I'm mostly on testing, these days, with occasional unstable overrides.
>
> Hi Christopher ... Do you use apt-pinning to add unstable packages to
> an otherwise Debian testing installation?

Indeed.  I recently set this up so as to get a more bleeding-edge
version of git-annex.

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