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Debian-Testing is the worst of both worlds. It doesn't get updated as frequently as -unstable and doesn't get security fixes in time like -stable. e.g. firefox-
by yyyk 6y ago
Debian-Testing is the worst of both worlds. It doesn't get updated as frequently as -unstable and doesn't get security fixes in time like -stable. e.g. firefox-esr was on 68.11.0 for two months until in the last few days it finally switched to 72.3.0. So users were running a vulnerable version all that time [i.e. they never got even 68.12.0].
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/firefox-esr
- kelnos 6y agoI consider the in-between nature of Testing to be a feature. Less-frequent updates than Unstable drastically reduces breakage, but I still get new stuff. The lack of timely security updates does unfortunately mean I have to be a little more vigilant. I usually run Stable for about 6 months after its first major release, since Testing often has a lot of churn then, and sometimes breaks. I've been running this way on my desktop machine since Stretch was Testing and have been really happy with it. For apps like Firefox, I run the upstream version anyway, which auto-updates on upstream's schedule.