Re: upgrade lombard potato to woody

[Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
> 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 same and get more outdated each day.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.

Creeping featurism.  One of the top five enemies of software/distro
releases.  The more things change ....

Thanks guys, I believe the fog is starting to lift, just bit.

a