[64studio-devel] testing

[Daniel James]

Hi Stephen,

> I just tried to join the 64studio forums, twice, and both times got a 
> message saying stuff was now being emailed to me, but nothing ever came.

Possibly our automated mails are being caught in your spam filter.

> I'm very familliar with 
> debian (user of debian [and also ubuntu] of many years and an ex debian 
> developer), and I notice that 64studio says it's fine to directly use 
> debian package sources. You'll be aware that it's quite common to track 
> testing as a debian user as it keeps you on fairly up to date packages 
> without so many of the problems of tracking unstable, and it is security 
> updated.
> 
> Is the case the same with tracking 64studio testing, that is, it should 
> be relatively stable and without frequent major problems?

Yes, our testing branch is relatively conservative. We recommend the 
stable releases for production systems because they have been through 
more of our own tests.

> Also, is it possible to track both debian testing and 64studio testing, 
> to keep up with more current packages in both the parent distro and 
> 64studio, in an ongoing manner?  Based on what i read about your minimal 
> divergence from debian and the "cross-pollination" back to/with debian 
> it would seem it should be quite possible to do this.

At the moment, our testing branch is based on backports to Etch, rather 
than following Debian testing. At some point in the future, when Etch is 
missing too many new features, our testing branch will be following 
Debian testing again (as it did before the Etch release).

Cheers!

Daniel