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Re: (dist)-upgrades




Den 2 jun 2013 17:00 skrev "Jeremy Stanley" <fungi@yuggoth.org>:
>
> On 2013-06-02 12:48:49 +0200 (+0200), Anders Jackson wrote:
> [...]
> > I'll do, and if you don't want this kind of misunderstandings,
> > don't call it something it isn't...
>
> I have to say, I find it hilarious when the exact same discussions
> play out for a second time on a new mailing list. Based on the
> original thread[1] on debian-devel, it seems unlikely in the extreme
> they will be called "PPAs" anyway, and it's amusing that anyone
> might even assume they would to begin with.

Well, then it must be a systematic error some where if it surface in many lists...

http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00478.html

> So far the naming proposal with the most support has been to call
> them "bikesheds" for... well... reasons ironic to the sorts of
> debates we always seem to have about such things.
>
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/05/msg00861.html

Bikesheds are a better name as isn't a PPA.  And no, names are important too, esp. if used in an area where it just confuses people.

Well, it's OT so I'll drop this.


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