Re: getting rid of "testing"
On 6/25/19 8:08 AM, Ansgar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Ansgar
Are we going to have rc-buggy as an alias to Experimental? :)
Cheers,
Thomas Goirand (zigo)
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