Re: Where is Debian going?
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 04:42:36PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 09:44:55AM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
> > When woody becomes stable, the new testing will be given a
> > completely new name. sid will always refer to the unstable
> > distribution.
>
> Well, yeah, now. Originally, sid was going to be just another name.
Originally sid was used for the distribution containing packages for
architectures that weren't planned to release with the next stable
release. See
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sid-history.
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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