Re: A suggestion for the woody freeze

["John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu>]

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:52:40PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> "John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes:
> 
> > i think the greatest mistake was the _assumption_ that b-f is built
> > against testing, and thus any upload to unstable would not affect b-f,
> > until the package moves into testing that is.
> 
>   Is it really an assumption?

sadly, yes. again, looking in the cvs repository, we can find the
canonical answer:

http://cvs.debian.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/boot-floppies/common.sh?content-type=text/plain

lines 23-25:
# what distro we use for base -- should be "woody" or "sid"
# we use "sid" for now until woody base is frozen
export SUITE="sid"

-john