(off topic)

I run Fedora myself, but I ran Debian for a good while, and (from experience) with Debian packages, you really want to be there (interactively) to handle the questions Debian will ask you. Things like "keep this version or install the package maintainers version" can be important.

With Fedora, there is no package configuration on install/upgrade, so it doesn't matter as much. I haven't even seen a testing package ask questions yet.