Stable & Testing

[vrkalak]

Since, Sparky is based on Debian 'Testing'

... what will happen when Testing on into the FREEZE?

Debian-Testing is expected to be frozen in last Sepember 2014 ... and Debian 'Jessie" is groomed for STABLE in early 2015.  (When is ready)

Will Sparky keep the Release Schedule?

[pavroo]

We use "testing" repo instead of "jessie", "wheezy", etc. so it'll be still based on testing and the release plans will be done.
When Debian 8 Jessie become stable, Sparky 4 will be moved on Debian 9 testing.

[way12go]

I think they will freeze Debian 8 testing so for one more year we will have Jessie. By the end of 2015 we will have Debian 9 testing. Testing is not freezing Debian testing, it's freezing Jessie so that Debian 7 weezy continue to be stable release...

I think so. This is still unclear to me.

[RacerBG]

My question is not exactly on topic but for example if I use "stable" instead of wheezy can I have rolling release too?

Thanks in advance!

PS: I ask because I installed once again Debian on my old PC just for fun. :)

[MoroS]

My question is not exactly on topic but for example if I use "stable" instead of wheezy can I have rolling release too?

Well... yeah. It'll roll once every few years. ;) Serioulsy though, "stable" gets frozen after being moved from "testing" and it only gets major error and security updates. It's just like Ubuntu's release cycle, but it's a lot slower. That's why we're based on testing, which is at least semi-rolling and stable enough for usage. :)

@Pavroo: I think this needs to be moved to a seperate thread again. :P

[pavroo]

@MoroS Done!