Re: How long the gap between testing to testing transition?
Posted: 2017-04-16 20:02
I see what you are saying and in theory this is true. That is, when testing is made stable, what happens is that a "snapshot" is taken from a "rolling" package collection and that stays as it is while from where it is taken from continues on rolling. In this sense one would expect testing and stable to be more or less equal in some short period after the transition. However, in practice, during the freeze very little if any new packages from upstream sources are put into the Debian package "universe" (in other words into unstable...some are passed around in experimental but others not at all) and package managers are focusing on other things. Therefore, right after stable is finally stable, most package managers have a lot to catch up to and there is a more-rapid-than-normal influx of new stuff after the transition.Job wrote:This is silly I don't have a handle on the inner working of Debian circle but a testing made stable a day ago can't be much different from a testing established a day ago.