Official codename/suite of squeeze-lts should be "squeeze"
Hello,
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> >> On 2014-04-11 13:49, Philipp Kern wrote:
> >> * Suite in Release should be set to squeeze-lts, not to oldstable-lts. Such
> >> a suite should not be tied to the progression of releases, as it's
> >> explicitly living separately. Any new release that causes movement in the
> >> old naming scheme does not necessarily have any bearing on squeeze-lts.
>
> oldstable-lts is gone, only squeeze-lts remains (as both Codename and
> Suite).
Is there a valid reason to advertise squeeze-lts as "squeeze-lts" and not as
"squeeze"?
http://security.debian.org/dists/squeeze/updates/Release says "squeeze"
and not "squeeze-security" or something like that.
I would like that the squeeze-lts repository advertise itself as
"squeeze" codename because right now if someone has an APT pinning saying to
prefer "squeeze" packages, and if s/he add the squeeze-lts repository,
s/he won't get updates from squeeze-lts.
Maybe we can change the label to "Debian-LTS" to match what has been done for
security.debian.org with "Debian-Security" so that we have an easy way to
pin based on that if someone needs to pin squeeze-lts specifically.
I noticed that because someone added this to the wiki and it seems just
wrong to have to do this:
https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/Using#Check_apt.conf_for_legacy_release_pinning
Cheers,
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