Bug#240697: acknowledged by developer (closing)

["C. Gatzemeier" <c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de>]

Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 23:03 schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:

> We do not want a vast quantity of users with
> "sarge" in their sources.list, who will then be left without security
> updates and a trivial upgrade path when sarge+1 is released.

OK, now I got it, we where thinking in different directions ;-)

So pointing to sarge is not foolproof the sarge+1 will be stable.

And installed systems now pointing to a (near realease) testing will never 
enter stable.



To provide for both ends I'd suggest:

--  Have prerelease installs default to point to the fixed name (sarge)

--  At release time change installation default to point to stable as usual,
    and issue a security patch to change explicit sarge systems to point to
    stable.


cheers,
Christian