On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 11:09:06AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
~Ansgar writes ("getting rid of "testing""):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.Yes, please, absolutely. And this should be the default.
+1Having "stable" in sources.list is broken, because one day stuff goes from working to not working, which requires manual intervention, at which point someone could have just changed the name. Having codenames in sources.list is broken, because even people who have been developers for two decades can't remember which release is which without looking it up. (Which is harder than it should be; maybe we should have had /etc/debian-releasenames or somesuch from the beginning. lsb_release -a is helpful when available but doesn't have context, and many users don't know it exists.)