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by currysausage 3779 days ago
> I mainly got hooked on their 'testing' branch since it is just "always up to date".

Note that testing doesn't get the same level of security support as stable: "Compared to stable and unstable, next-stable testing has the worst security update speed. Don't prefer testing if security is a concern." [1]; more details: [2], [3], [4].

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTesting#Considerations

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/Status/Testing

[3] https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing

[4] http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/
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chei0aiV 3779 days ago
You can slightly speed it up by using apt pinning to get security updates from Debian unstable (but other packages from testing) when available.

https://bugs.debian.org/725934

To speed it up even more you would need to follow the unstable/testing pages on the security tracker and file bugs to get maintainers to do fixes and do NMUs when maintainers are on vacation or missing.

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/u... https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/status/release/t...

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