On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stable (or frozen?), where > testing will basically go on as ever, but woody will basically stay the > same and get more outdated each day. It depends what you want, but I > suspect most people want the alias. sid == unstable permanently if its not sufficiently clear. sid will never be released, so using sid instead of unstable is pointless. testing will always point to the current testing distribution, be it woody or sarge (a possible name for the next release after woody). woody will eventually be retagged as `stable' where it never gets updates like potato, other then security. the transistion from testing to stable is not entirely clear.. since there seems to be no real, enforced freeze packages keep going into woody, woody keeps getting broken and more packages then go into woody and so on. with the current freeze proceedure i expect woody to become stable around 2014. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
Attachment:
pgpze8SOLBeiE.pgp
Description: PGP signature