Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> writes:
On Sat, 20 Apr 2013, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
I think I would be better suited to a distribution that follows a so-called "rolling" model whereby there are no freezes and no formal releases as such.
You can use Debian/Testing in that regard.
14:56 <themill> (within one day of squeeze's release 15% of source packages were different in squeeze; pretty damned amazing when you consider that they are (by definition) identical at release time) While it only happens once every (on average) two years, that's a pretty cam to roll.
The freeze on Unstable prior to the release of a new version of Debian only covers a small amount of time every couple of years. You're not going to spend that much time waiting for things.
14:42 <themill> !slushy 14:42 <dpkg> When a <testing> release becomes frozen, <unstable> tends to partially freeze as well. This is because developers are reluctant to upload radically new software to unstable, in case the frozen software in testing needs minor updates and to fix release critical bugs which keep testing from becoming <stable>.