Re: Questions prompted by {Re: (no) link to release notes for testing/stretch}

On 05/19/2017 08:05 PM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
>> 2. Is there a document (or blog or ??) targeted at someone using
>> a "testing" release for the first time. My interest relates to the
>> move from MySQL to Mariadb - I've already been pointed to links to
>> the fine details of the change. I'm asking if there something with
>> a broad perspective on dealing with any testing release.
>
> Our official documentation is available here:
>
> https://www.debian.org/devel/testing

I don't believe I've seen that page before.
I think the portion titled "Can you provide a real, non-trivial 
example?" will prove useful.

> https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting

Although I read that page some time ago, it has much more "relevance" 
when re-read with a specific problem in mind.

>
> I wrote a blog post about using testing (some of it is out of date
> now):
>
> http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2012/10/29/thoughts-on-debian-testing/

I've an old laptop dedicated to my experiments including figuring out 
how to "have Debian my way" [apologies to a fast food chain;]. That page 
gives me several ideas to make life easier.

Thank you.