Re: Current bullseye security and stability

[email protected] Thu, 14 Jan 2021 11:20:00 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.testing
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hey!

I have a couple of notebooks, a VM and like ~30 servers running debian testing 
for 2 years now.
My experience says you can count on stability.
I have not detected any security issues yet... I'm also subscribed to 
debian-security, most of the announcements on the list are already solved on by 
the packages on bullseye.

regards
lucas

El 14/1/2021 a las 10:44, Jorge P. de Morais Neto escribió:
> 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
>
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