[Grml] Why does GRML mix up the stable and teh unstable branche in apt?

[Hermann]

Hi,
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.
Hermann

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[Hermann]

Hi,
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.
Hermann

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[Hermann]

Hi,
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.
Hermann

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[Michael Prokop]

Post by Hermann
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.

grml is based on plain Debian/unstable.

That stable/testing might look more stable to you is because
you're using an older release which used packages at that time from
Debian/unstable which are part of Debian stable/testing nowadays.

regards,
-mika-
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[Michael Prokop]

Post by Hermann
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.

grml is based on plain Debian/unstable.

That stable/testing might look more stable to you is because
you're using an older release which used packages at that time from
Debian/unstable which are part of Debian stable/testing nowadays.

regards,
-mika-
--
http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge
http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog
#grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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[Michael Prokop]

Post by Hermann
a few weeks ago, I installed Gnome on my GRML 2008-11.
Since Gnome shipps a lot of updates, I got a lot of stuff from the
unstable branche of the repo.
This results in screwing up my system, especially Gnome.
So I commented out the unstable branche and removed comment chars from
the testing branche; the stability was much better.
But due to the lack of performance I finally got rid of Gnome.
But the question stays: Why is stable and unstable mixed up on GRML,
instead of including the testing branche?
With one exception, this mixing caused no problem on the text console.

grml is based on plain Debian/unstable.

That stable/testing might look more stable to you is because
you're using an older release which used packages at that time from
Debian/unstable which are part of Debian stable/testing nowadays.

regards,
-mika-
--
http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins
http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge
http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog
#grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc
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