[TriLUG] aptitude broke gaim!

[Ben Pitzer]

Okay, so let's get something straight.  As Mike stated, Sarge is now
the Stable branch of Debian.  The new Testing branch is called 'etch'.
 Testing can be fairly unstable, but the closer to the end of a
development cycle it is, the more stable it will be.  Stable is
static, in that it VERY rarely gets any feature upgrades, or new
software.  It's frozen in time, so to speak, with the exception of bug
and security fixes.  Testing, on the other hand, evolves.  It gets
more and more stable over time (which is the point) until it's stable
enough for the Debian leadership to call it 'stable' and release it as
such to the public.  Given that we just had a release wherein Sarge
became Debian 3.1 (Stable), the current Testing branch is fairly
unstable, comparatively speaking.  I recommend that most folks use
Sarge for now, and give etch a little time to mature before they use
it.  I rarely recommend that anybody use Unstable (codename Sid)
unless they're bug hunting, testing, developing, or just have a high
tolerance for pain.

-Ben

On 7/11/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> Well it looks like building from source was the solution to getting gaim
> going again.  As far as running Sarge over Woody...  Everyone I talked
> to when I was considering Woody said "man, you gotta run Sarge!  It's
> not that bad, really, 'unstable' is sort of a misnomer..."
> 
> Oh well.  No biggie..  Thanks for the input, and it looks like I spawned
> a good thread anyway. :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Brian
> 
> 
> Alan Porter wrote:
> >>Seriously, should one always use dist-upgrade?
> >
> >
> > I disagree with Jason.  I *always* do a dist-upgrade.
> > That way, I am updating the entire system rather than
> > a few particular files.
> >
> > But I don't claim to be an expert.  I'd love to hear
> > other opinions about this.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
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