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Re: D-I meeting Saturday June 18th 14:00UTC



On Thursday 16 June 2005 23:39, Christian Perrier wrote:
> The meeting topics will be:
> - [...]

Although it is somewhat technical, I'd like to add another subject which I 
think deserves discussion in a broad group.

I've already seen several mails since the release from users unaware of 
the fact that testing is now Etch and no longer Sarge and getting into 
problems because of that.
IMO we should reconsider using release code names instead of status names 
when adding sources in /etc/apt/sources.list.

This would also help users who want to install the previous release using 
an oldstable version of the installer.

Some examples of confused users:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/06/msg00081.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/06/msg00107.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2005/06/msg00163.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/06/msg00646.html (?)
http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing/2005/06/msg00058.html

Note that this approach was already chosen for the Release Notes:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/05/msg00779.html
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#s-upgrade-process

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