Re: getting rid of "testing"
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 08:08:22AM +0200, Ansgar wrote:
> what do people think about getting rid of current suite names ("stable",
> "testing", "unstable") for most purposes? We already recommend using
> codenames instead as those don't change their meaning when a new release
> happens.
Even if we stop advertising them, could we keep them as a generic set of
aliases?[1]
> Related to that I would like to be able to write something like
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian debian11 main
> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security debian11-security main
> in sources.list as codenames confuse people.
Can you please elaborate on the "confuse people"?
I think adding such names would be a good idea, as long as we stay on
simple versions. Or we use "debian-11", then it does not look that ugly
to do "debian-23.42".[2]
What would you do about sid? It got no version.
On related notes:
For Azure we currently plan (yeah, still not finished as MS does not
provide input, be we still need to change it):
- debian-10
- debian-11
- debian-sid
Regards,
Bastian
[1]: I think apt would need to learn about aliases.[2] As would dak, to
maintain them automatically.
[2]: Maybe we could even use them for bullseye/updates ->
bullseye-security and keep the former as alias without apt complaining
about it.
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