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Re: How branches and names work



On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 07:52:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 06:09:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Do I change the "sid" to "testing"?  Will everything in unstable
> > now be moved to testing (doesn't sound correct) or will there 
> > just not be a testing for some amount of time? 

History:
Past >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NOW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
           Introduction of testing
                     |
                     v
unreleased (sid)-----\
                      >-------------------------- unstable (sid)
unstable (woody)-----/    | | | (package   | |
                      ^   | | |    by      | |
                     GAP  | | |  package)  | |
                      v   v v v            v v
       testing (woody)/-----------------<-------- testing (sarge)
stable (potato)---\--------------------\ \------- stable (woody)
                   \-(slink off to      \-- (potato off to 
                     the archive)            the archive)

See GAP and meaning change for woody !

> If previous patterns hold out, there won't be a new testing for a while.

No as Colin said.

> If you always want to run the same version of a particular branch, name
> the branch, i.e. stable, frozen, testing, unstable
> 
> If you always want to run the same release, name the release, i.e.,
> hamm, potato, woody, sid...

slink potato woody sarge ...
 
> One caveat:  sid is *always* unstable now.  I see this as minor
> breakage, you can't update to sid and follow it sunrise to sunset like
> you could with all distros woody and prior.

???

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