Hello all,

I ran into issues using Godot under Debian Trixie and Sway ( 1.10 )
These issues were fixed in 1.11.

Somebody on here recommended me the Debian Backports which look really cool. Unfortunately sway has no Backport as of right now, so I have used the Testing repository for this with a PinPriority so low it does not Update other packages.

This does work and all problems are resolved, my question now is:
When installing sway from testing it has naturally also installed its required dependencies from testing. Does having those dependencies installed which other packages (from stable) might depend on as well introduce weird behavior incompatible issues? I mean they are not in a special testing sandbox nor have some unique namespace, this sets my alarm off right away.

I have used a rolling release distro before and it was surprisingly stable all things considered so I am considering to go full testing on Debian. Does anybody on here do the same?

  • Vogi@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    18 days ago

    Just today I’ve met somebody using a distro which is based on debian testing and they’ve been using it for years as well. (Do not remember the distros name though)

    Why did you stop using testing? If you don’t mind me asking.

    • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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      18 days ago

      Uh. Debian worked too flawlessly so I got bored and switched to NixOS… 😅
      But I still have Debian on a server, just the stable version because that doesn’t need much attention, and I don’t really need cutting-edge stuff there.

      So I guess I more or less wanted some excitement and try something new, again. Still very much like Debian, though, and that’s where I’m most comfortable.