Bug#174335: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#174335: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#174335: no boot floppies for testing))

[Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>]

reopen 174335
reassign 174335 www.debian.org
thanks

Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
>WTF? You want to install Distribution B with Installer from A. What is
>so hard to understand this?

I accept that my mental model of Debian was inaccurate.  I still claim
that this is due to a documentation bug.  However, on reexamining things
I think the bug is in Debian's website.

My view of what I was doing was "I want to install Debian (testing);
I'll use the Debian installer (which isn't in the testing directory,
it happens to only be in the stable directory).".  It seems that the
different releases of Debian are more independent than I'd been aware of.

What would have avoided my confusion would be a note in the release list
or the installation manual (preferably both) explicitly saying "The
testing distribution cannot be installed directly; install stable and
then upgrade.".  I can't currently find on the website any indication
that testing differs from stable in any respect other than the maturity
of the code.

-zefram