From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fd31e7255f90c653 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-28 06:18:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!skynet.be!skynet.be!louie!tjb!not-for-mail Sender: lbrenta@lbrenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Update on Ada packages in Debian GNU/Linux References: <873ca1ouor.fsf@320025674319-0001.dialin.t-online.de> From: Ludovic Brenta Date: 28 Jan 2004 15:18:46 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: -= Belgacom Usenet Service =- NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.201.218.78 X-Trace: DXC=4MJKnVo^_?@Ogi3CWLckLDi98m_9@L0lG1XhdhRZ;<4GUK1kfafVJIGniQ:_;NJ;9K5RP28WkhaIBQjVKQ70;F\@ X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@skynet.be Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4998 Date: 2004-01-28T15:18:46+01:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol writes: > On 2004-01-27, Michael Bode wrote: > > Ludovic Brenta 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: > > > > 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.