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Operating Systems Linux Debian Debian Testing (Is it Stable) Post 302768803 by bakunin on Saturday 9th of February 2013 05:54:50 PM
Old 02-09-2013
Debian is probably the distribution with the most conservative attitude of all when it comes to version acceptance. Use a "Debian Stable" if you want something which will still be running in the next ice-age. "Debian Testing" and "Debian Unstable" are by no means insecure or crash-prone, just not that rigorously tested as "Stable".

For your laptop the advatages of having newer software, which is probably farther developed by far outweighs the disadvantage of having statistically one crash more every 20 years. As long as you don't control atomic power plants or similarily sensitive things with this system you probably will come to like it. I have a "Debian Unstable" somewhere on my notebook and never had any problems with it, I mainly use Fedora Core, but that is more because of personal taste than because of any shortcoming of Debian.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
 

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Debian::Control::Stanza::Source(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      Debian::Control::Stanza::Source(3pm)

NAME
Debian::Control::Stanza::Source - source stanza of Debian source package control file SYNOPSIS
my $src = Debian::Control::Stanza::Source->new(\%data); print $src; # auto-stringification print $src->Build_Depends; # Debian::Dependencies object DESCRIPTION
Debian::Control::Stanza::Source can be used for representation and manipulation of "Source:" stanza of Debian source package control files in an object-oriented way. Converts itself to a textual representation in string context. FIELDS
The supported fields for source stanzas are listed below. For more information about each field's meaning, consult the section named "Source package control files -- debian/control" of the Debian Policy Manual at http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ <http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/> Note that real control fields may contain dashes in their names. These are replaced with underscores. Source Section Priority Maintainer Uploaders DM_Upload_Allowed Build_Conflicts Build_Conflicts_Indep Build_Depends Build_Depends_Indep Standards_Version Vcs_Browser Vcs_Bzr Vcs_CVS Vcs_Git Vcs_Svn Homepage XS_Autobuild All Build_... fields are converted into objects of Debian::Dependencies class upon construction. CONSTRUCTOR
new new( { field => value, ... } ) Creates a new Debian::Control::Stanza::Source object and optionally initializes it with the supplied data. SEE ALSO
Debian::Control::Stanza::Source inherits most of its functionality from Debian::Control::Stanza COPYRIGHT &; LICENSE Copyright (C) 2009 Damyan Ivanov dmn@debian.org This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. perl v5.14.2 2012-01-15 Debian::Control::Stanza::Source(3pm)
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