Re: Update on Ada packages in Debian GNU/Linux

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org>]

Preben Randhol <randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@pvv.org> writes:

> On 2004-01-27, Michael Bode <m.g.bode@web.de> wrote:
> > Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:
> >
> >> Yesterday, my Ada packages have all reached "testing" in Debian.  In a
> >> nutshell, this means that:
> >
> > Good work, thanks a lot. Maybe I should upgrade to testing by now.
> 
> Actually you shouldn't use testing too much. Testing does not need to be
> consistent so it can break your setup. It is better to use unstable or
> wait for sarge. However, now as we are close to a stable release I think
> upgrading to testing is quite safe. But after the stable has been
> released, don't use testing. For more discussion on this:
> 
> <URL: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&frame=right&th=4687df35367c058c&seekm=20030126003006%245b74%40gated-at.bofh.it#link13>
> 
> Preben

Testing is safer than unstable.  I use testing all the time.  Testing
is good for you.

Packages migrate from unstable to testing only after they pass certain
sanity checks.  In particular they must have no more bugs than the
version already in testing, must not break any packages, and must
install on all platforms.  The discussion you are referring to is one
year old.  At that time there was change from glibc 2.2 to 2.3, which
is a large change and caused some people (not me) to have problems.
But the problems were there in unstable too.  Now, testing is very
close to being frozen for final release and is suitable for daily use.

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.