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Re: RFC: Final update of DEP-14 on naming of git packaging branches



Hello,

> On Sat, 12 Sep 2020, Sean Whitton wrote:
>> There are arguments both ways here but as you're the person driving
>> this, I'm still keen to hear more from you about why debian/unstable is
>> to be preferred over debian/sid giving the existing convention
>> established by dgit.  Thanks.
>
> I don't have figures about their respective usage and I have no time to
> look into collecting such statictics. However I have been convinced by
> Simon Mc Vittie's request to document some sort of preference.
>
> debian/unstable better matches what we put in the changelog: we
> put unstable for upload to the development release (and we put a codename
> for stable uploads).
>
> debian/unstable is more expressive than debian/sid for persons who
> are not very familiar with the debian release naming scheme.

Okay, thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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