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My experience has been that many packages in unstable tend to get a Depends: on an unstable-only libc6, and effectively require a nearly full dist-upgrade to be

by 0x0 11y ago

My experience has been that many packages in unstable tend to get a Depends: on an unstable-only libc6, and effectively require a nearly full dist-upgrade to be installable, after a while. At least it was like this a few major versions back, maybe it's less brutal on jessie at the moment.

pritambaral 11y ago
Eventually, Debian stable becomes too old, and Debian unstable keeps getting farther and farther from it. We will eventually move to something newer, maybe the latest Ubuntu LTS. It's always a tradeoff between stability and freshness, which is subjective and varies from sysadmin to sysadmin. Worst case scenario: we have to build newer packages ourselves on top of an old, stable repo. That is also not too hard for us. ---- We do have one server running Arch though; we run every service on it that we have in production and some more, and less effort has gone into to it than any of our production servers individually. I think that's primarily because packaging for Arch is just so simple.