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<font face="Century Schoolbook L">Hi all, <br>
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Now that jessie is released, testing will now be open, in fact it
may already have been opened up. Which means for the next 2
months the initial toolchain will be uploaded to sid/unstable and
from there gravitate to testing after the 10/5/2 days (depending
on the severity written by the packager) . Now this is the
vulnerable time for whoever downloads these packages as sometimes
the packages have circular dependencies . At other times, you may
update the package and find that you are unable to boot or boot
into your favourite desktop manager or something else altogether.
Such breakages do happen irregular during the initial couple of
months, so the best idea is to hold off for those 2 odd months to
let debian.org do its work and then jump to wherever it is that
they are doing. <br>
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If however, you have couple of machines with the same config.
then would be most opportune, provided backups are taken everyday
so in case if breakage happens, then that breakage could be
reported, fixed and the other day's backup could be used to
generate the system-state to the pristine last day's good image.
This is also helpful for having an intimate understanding of how
debian builds the distribution. <br>
<br>
While there are plenty of left-overs from the unfinished 20-30
transitions in debian which will sustain package updates for 2-3
months, there is also a discussion which happen on debian-devel
where the big picture and what big ticket transitions or changes
need to happen which eventually become part of the Release notes.
<br>
<br>
Which brings to the next question, are we going to be following
Debian's 2 yearly cycle or some other way ?<br>
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Another query, would we have different sets of people for stable
and different people for development updates or the same people as
the focus of both releases is different. There is also backports
who is like that beautiful woman across the street or handsome man
around the corner who looks good but your own fear puts you down.
It's the same with backports because it has no support. <br>
<br>
I would elaborate more on another email but hopefully some
feedback and answers are elicited .<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Regards,
Shirish Agarwal,
Community Lead,
Hamaralinux.org</pre>
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