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I'm talking about regular desktop usage, not about servers. And things break in testing only if maintainers messed up transition. Related packages should come in consistently otherwise.

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'Testing' is also usually the last branch to get security updates, sometimes weeks later.

I think that's something they tried to fix, with testing security repo.

Perhaps they are trying to improve the situation, but I read Debian security advisories regularly, and they are almost always published without a fix on the testing branch.

Unstable is the Debian branch to use if stable is too slow for one's tastes. The testing branch is just for testing and it's really not safe to use on the internet.

I am also talking about regular desktop usage, not servers.

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