Re: getting rid of "testing"
On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:04 PM Michael Stone wrote:
> Having "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.)
Personally, I can remember the names and their order much better than
which version goes with which codename or suite :)
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pabs
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