Re: stable/testing/unstable vs woody/sarge/sid
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 04:12:10PM +0100, peter green wrote:
> afaict the installer currently uses the first of theesee possibilities
> (stable/testing/unstable) in sources.list
>
> this means that when there is another release users will get automatically
> updated from one stable release to the next
> possiblly when they are really not expecting it
>
> it would seem more sensible to me to use the woody/sarge/sid names so that
> people have to explicitly upgrade from one release to the next
That's pretty arguable. Remember that we will stop supporting sarge for
security purposes at some point after etch is released, so if people
have to explicitly upgrade then there will eventually be a lot of
insecure systems out there.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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