Re: Fwd: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable
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On 11/03/15 03:55, Bret Busby wrote:
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> <bret.busby@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800
> Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to
> squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable To:
> debian-lts@lists.debian.org
>
> On 10/03/2015, Andreas Glaeser <bugs.andreas.glaeser@freenet.de>
> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:38:29 +0100 Holger Levsen
>> <holger@layer-acht.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> when jessie will be released, wheezy will become oldstable and
>>> we'll need a new alias for squeeze, as various tools internally
>>> work with aliases. (The
>>>
>>> security tracker comes to my mind, but also the Release files
>>> it seems. And probably more.)
>>>
>>> I believe it's the ftp teams duty / joy to decide this name and
>>> would like to ask you to do soon, so that various places can be
>>> prepared for the joyful day we release jessie.
>>>
>>> Current suggestions I've heard (and liked) are "oldoldstable"
>>> and "veryoldstable".
>>>
>>> I *dislike* "obsoletestable" and "stalestable" as they are
>>> either wrong (squeeze is not obsolete) or carry a bad
>>> connotation.
>>>
>>>
>>> cheers, Holger
>>
>> What about 'extremely-stable' ??
>>
>
> Why not simply use the states experimental unstable testing
>
> and for the stable version stable and version number (eg Debian7)
>
> and all preceding versions, version number eg Debian6 LTS Debian 5
> Debian4 etc
If relative names are needed:
stable
stable-1 (currently oldstable)
stable-2
etc
Richard
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