From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] 1L? Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:58:37 +0100 Message-ID: <868sygtb9u.fsf@dod.no> References: <86lg2r7ggb.fsf@zoho.eu> <86r2cclur7.fsf@dod.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="172687"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.2 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 16 08:59:18 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1guusY-000iot-BG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 08:59:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guusX-0007aQ-Bl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:56087) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guusG-0007ZK-QI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:59:01 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guusF-0007eZ-5y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:59:00 -0500 Original-Received: from cadalora.default.sbang.uk0.bigv.io ([2001:41c9:1:424::90]:39344 helo=cadalora.bang.priv.no) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1guusF-0006aI-0V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 02:58:59 -0500 Original-Received: from mccoy (cm-84.212.50.160.getinternet.no [84.212.50.160]) by cadalora.bang.priv.no (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 21CB5CD466 for ; Sat, 16 Feb 2019 07:58:38 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:34:08 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2001:41c9:1:424::90 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119427 Archived-At: >>>>> Stefan Monnier : > Actually, I also remember now that another selling point for Debian was > the "testing" version, which lets you do "lots of small painless > upgrades" instead of "less frequent but more painful upgrades". If memory serves me right, there was a period of time when they took a lot of years to roll out a new stable, and I stayed on testing for that period. But after they startet rolling out new releases every two years, I've stayed on stable.