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Neil Williams wrote: | | I don't think the process will actually replace the current packages and | downgrade the versions - at least not for the majority. In essence, you'll | have a testing system that will wait for stable to catch up.
It is relatively easy to tell it to replace the packages with the ones in an earlier release as per the Debian Reference (from memory), but as the documentation notes, this might not work if say a config file format, or a binary storage format, has been modified between the two releases.
I've been running Sarge as my desktop for ages, and I've had less issues ~ than with any other OS I've ever used, the most disruptive was the upgrade that broke AMSN (fortunately GAIM uses the same config file as AMSN, so I just had to go check one checkbox in GAIM to get back that instant messaging).
Sure Firefox 1.01 was a bit slow to arrive in testing, but then I tested the published vulnerabilities and the worrying one wasn't exploitable on Debian anyway. Support for International Domain Names is a feature not a vulnerability in my book, I know some foreign letters look like English ones.
At this point Sarge is effectively the current Debian desktop in all but name, but there is more to becoming Debian stable than being a good desktop OS. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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