On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 10:32:36AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > 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). In https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/871rjnu3r9.fsf@hope.eyrie.org is that also said by Russ Allbery. > > debian/unstable is more expressive than debian/sid for persons who > > are not very familiar with the debian release naming scheme. > > Okay, thanks. Yes, we are closer to consensus. Other warm feeling I have is that this discussion learnt me that DEP-14 was originally written with Upstream in mind. Regards Geert Stappers DD -- Silence is hard to parse
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