Re: getting rid of "testing"
Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2019, 11:48 -0400 schrieb Michael Stone:
> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 05:01:48PM +0200, Alf Gaida wrote:
> > Only a few remarks as former simple user and now maintainer:
> > * Please don't mix things: release names has a value, distribution
> > names like oldoldstable, oldstable, stable, testing, unstable has
> > their value too
>
> oldoldstable has the value of demonstrating some of what's wrong
> with
> the current system
Then running wheezy will be fine once buster is released, because
oldoldstable will point to jessie and wheezy won't have a release name
any more?
Some admins ask: "How many reboots until the next Debian release?"
Others ask: "How many Debian releases until the next reboot?"
I can images systems that are getting bought, setup, and after several
years shutdown and retired without rebooting or dist-upgrading them.
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