Current bullseye security and stability
"Jorge P. de Morais Neto" <[email protected]> Thu, 14 Jan 2021 10:44:51 -0300
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.user.testing |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi. I love having fresh packages. To work around the oldness of Debian stable, I have installed dozens of packages from buster-backports; 81 packages from Guix; 12 Flatpak applications (excluding runtimes); 20 pip3 packages (excluding their dependencies); and ≃10 npm packages (excluding their many dozens of dependencies). The complementary package managers do not quench my thirst for freshness, so I would like to upgrade Debian to bullseye. Now that the freeze has started, is it a good time to upgrade my personal notebook? Should bullseye, by now, be relatively stable and, more importantly, secure enough? I do not run any server; it is a personal laptop behind NAT---at least for IPv4 (I don't know the details of IPv6). I am subscribed to `debian-security' and am willing to manually pull specific packages from /unstable/ for security reasons. That is, when a /testing/ package in my installation has a serious security vulnerability, I am willing to upgrade it to the security-fixed version from /unstable/ instead of waiting for it to propagate to testing. In this context, is bullseye secure enough? Regards -- - <https://jorgemorais.gitlab.io/justice-for-rms/> - If an email of mine arrives at your spam box, please notify me. - Please adopt free/libre formats like PDF, ODF, Org, LaTeX, Opus, WebM and 7z. - Free/libre software for Replicant, LineageOS and Android: https://f-droid.org - [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html][What is free software?]]