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Debian's development model actually seems to hit a sweet spot between "everyone runs LTS" and "everyone is cannon fodder". Stable is LTS, sid is cutting edge,
by kijin 3y ago
Debian's development model actually seems to hit a sweet spot between "everyone runs LTS" and "everyone is cannon fodder".
Stable is LTS, sid is cutting edge, and testing is somewhere in between. You can choose the level of stability you want, and even move from one to the other, all without leaving the umbrella of Debian.
- LeoPanthera 3y agoThis implies that testing is "more stable" than sid, which is often not the case, if what you care about is breaking changes. Broken packages in sid tend to be updated fairly quickly, whereas breakage in testing often stays broken for quite some time until the fix is promoted.
- kijin 3y agoDepends on what you mean by "stable". A distro with known-broken packages can be "stable" in a sense that its brokenness is reproducible with every new container you spin up, and therefore can be reliably worked around. I've had this happen with minor packages in known-stable distros like CentOS and Ubuntu LTS, too.