[LUNI] Using (Debian) Unstable packages in Woody

[Martin Maney]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:19:34PM -0500, Martin Maney wrote:
> > only available in Unstable.  Is anybody mixing unstable and woody on the
> > same machine, and if so, how has your experience been?  Any hints on how to
> > go about it?
> 
> Backports, backports, backports.

I forgot the other option that I can (maybe) recommend: upgrade to
unstable and be done with it.

Unstable is usually quite usable for a workstation - I was running
Woody on this machine for over six months beofre it made it to release,
and had been tracking it on an experimental machine for at least three
or four months before that (which is how I became confident enough to
try it on my own desktop, of course).  It's mostly a lot of fun - you
get updated packages frequently, with only rarely any excitement when
something breaks annoyingly.

What I can't generate any enthusiasm for is trying to install binary
packages from unstable on a stable system.  *That* can take you to
places of library hell that even a Windows machine doesn't deserve.

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