On Mon, 1 May 2006 10:10:20 +0200 Christian Perrier wrote: > Distribution: used to talk about Debian in general, whichever branch > is used > > Branch (or suite): used to talk about stable, testing and unstable > and explain differences between all of them or the > ways they are developed > > Release : used to talk about the successive releases of > Debian as a distribution: potato, woody, sarge....as > well as the release updates > > Version : used when using numerical version numbers (3.1r2, etc..) > > I understand this is somewhat tricky and it may become very easy to > nitpick about the assumptions I made above but I'd really like to see > us accept that not everything is easy to understand from an outsider > point of view, in our terminology. > > Comments welcomed (heh, I subscribed to -project just for this...) I find the proposed clarifications quite accurate: To test, the following sentence to makes sense (no word reuse for different meanings): when finalizing a branch of the Debian distribution, its internal codename is used as official release name and a version number is decided. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er n_r: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm
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