Re: getting rid of "testing"
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:08 PM 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.
I use these (testing, etc) so getting rid of them would be annoying.
> Related to that I would like to be able to write something like
>
> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian debian11 main
Already kind of possible:
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian Debian9.9 main
> Ubuntu already has no suite names, only codenames, but having to map
> "Ubuntu 18.04" to "bionic" instead of just writing the version in
> sources.list is annoying (I always have to look up the codename to be
> sure as I don't use Ubuntu that much).
They do have the 'devel' suite, but it is not a proper one:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1821272
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