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Re: We might need a better wording for our release page



Dear Fellows,

On 12/20/24 14:49, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Holger Levsen wrote:
>> Justin B Rye wrote:

... snip ...
>> Suite is very commonly used to describe the different, aehm, suites of
>> Debian. 
> 
> Indeed, that's how it got in the Glossary!
>  
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/developers-reference.en.html
>> mentions suites 21 times, mostly in this sense.

Since 'Suite' has a historical value, that remained unopposed for some time, we
can very easily adopt it going forward.

> Yes; DevRef 5.5 uses the word "suite" quite a bit (and 5.5.1 even
> refers to bookworm and bullseye as "suite names"), but it introduces
> these target repositories as "distributions".

... snip ...

> 
> These are the only sources I've seen so far using the even stricter
> sense that distinguishes codenames from branchnames and doesn't allow
> for DevRef-style "suite (code)names".
>  
>> I now think https://piuparts.debian.org needs an update. :)
> 
> The word it wants is something more like simply "tests".  "Test
> suites" would be conveniently ambiguous...

Would I be understanding that we would offer Debian Suites:

* Stable Suite -represented only as the Stable Suite
* Testing Suite - represented only as the NewStable(?) Suite
* UnStable Suite - represented only as The Sid(UnStable) Suite
* Experimental Suite - represented only as RC-Buggy

I think that would allow us to Grandfather Release/codenames at the same time.

Release: $X; $Suite

There would still be confusion on for example Debian Experimental.

I am open to correction if I completely missed the intention/interpretation,
there are a lot of differing release/suite/version notes pretty much everywhere
which I am pulling this thought process from.

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