Re: getting rid of "testing"

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:13:00PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Andreas Tille writes ("Re: getting rid of "testing""):
> >  I never really understood why we need these codenames.
> Simon McVittie wrote:
> | Back when the release team decided on a per-release basis whether
> | this was a "major" or "minor" release, we had the excuse that we had
> | to use a codename for testing because we didn't know whether etch
> | would be released as Debian 3.2 or Debian 4.0
>
> I was around at the time and I have a vague recollection which roughly
> matches Simon's.  

Not just that: after the faux-release debacle there was a push to avoid 
numbers in case someone polluted one. We're much less dependent on CD 
vendors these days, of course.