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Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues



Tapio Lehtonen wrote on 16/05/2006 08:14:
> On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:29:52PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> If stable/testing/unstable are branches (or suites), what are Ubuntu,
> DeMuDi, SkoleLinux et al Debian based distributions? I would have
> called them branches, from a version control point of view.

>From a VCS point of view, they are more like (other/remote) repositories
(to avoid the use of the word 'fork'), even though they integrate
updates from Debian (and/or update Debian itself, like at least
SkoleLinux tries to).

Regards,
Sven

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