On Thursday 17 March 2016 19:06:00 deloptes wrote: > Lisi Reisz wrote: > > Why not just use Sl�vek's Preliminary Stable Builds repository instead of > > the ones you have? �It would solve your problem immediately for very > > little effort. �I switched some while ago because I wanted a patch fast > > and have never looked back. �It is great! �You get exactly what will be > > going into 14.0.4, but you get it sooner. �And come the release of 14.0.4 > > you won't need to upgrade because you will already have it. �Note the > > "Stable" in the name. ;-) > > > > Lisi > > I don't know - this is new to me and the steak is big as I can not risk, so > I had to investigate pro and contra but never got the opportunity to do so. > Since I have time to follow up the list closer, it was in some sort of > transition, but I think now it settled down. > If you have some information to enlighten me, this would be nice. What would you like to know? Debian users are apt to see Sl�vek's Preliminary Stable Builds repository as the equivalent of Testing, but that is wrong. Assuming that you go on using deb http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian jessie main deb-src http://mirror.ppa.trinitydesktop.org/trinity/trinity-r14.0.0/debian jessie main deb and that you update and upgrade regularly, then when 14.0.4 is released you will get all the new packages and patches in one fell, quite large swoop. If you don't want then you will have to stop upgrading or comment out the Trinity repositories. Those packages and patches are not prepared suddenly over-night. They are gathered up over time and stored until it is time to release them. It is Sl�vek who stores them. (I think only Sl�vek, but possibly not only Sl�vek). If you change to: deb http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14 deb-src http://mirror.xcer.cz/trinity-sb jessie deps-r14 main-r14 then as the bug patches and new packages are ready, you will get them immediately. Exactly the same ones as you would get later in 14.0.4 when it is released. Mostly bug patches. As with Debian Stable, new things are _mostly_ reserved for the next major release and it is bug fixes which are released meanwhile. So the only difference is when you get them. As there is no such thing as software without bugs, presumably there are occasionally bugs in the bug-fixes, and presumably they are occasionally found and put right. But I do not see what you would have to lose if you want a patched package urgently. What you are doing now strikes me as just possibly being able to mess up your system. Not very likely, but more likely than stuff released by Sl�vek, since that has been tested elsewhere, and its tested dependencies worked out, before it reaches your system. The Preliminary Stable Builds repositories are no more risky than any other upgrade. I'm not sure if that has answered your questions at all. Just ask, if it hasn't. But if you want a particular bug fix to a particular package, and Sl�vek has the patch, this is in MHO the safest, and certainly the quickest and easiest, way to get it. Lisi