On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:10:20AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > A recent discussion popped up in the French l10n mailing list > (http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2006/04/msg00539.html, in > French) about the terminology to use for writing documentation and > making reference to stable/testing/unstable in various parts of our > documentation/web site and even packages (D-I for instance). > Hi Christian, I like the terms you used but I have a comment. I think of the output of Debian in two terms: fixed and changing. Sarge is a fixed product that is released and contains a fixed suite of software (with the exception of point releases) and exists for a fixed time and 'streams' of software, where if you 'follow' stable,testing and unstable, you will get a continuous stream of changing software packages and you can say I am running 'unstable' but need to clarify this by saying that I have packages from the unstable stream that were released between $THIS_DATE and $THAT_DATE or between $THIS_RELEASE and $THIS_RELEASE+1 because unstable does not exists for a fixed date like releases, it always exists, and changes(at least more recent release cycles). cheers, Kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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