Re: Difference between woody and potato
Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
>
> I'm a bit confused about woody and potato. I though that potato is
> always the newest, bleeding edge distribution. And that woody is the
> code-name for the 2.2 release. So why is unstable pointing to woody,
> and frozen to potato? I found this out when I tried to get gimp1.1
> and found it not there, even when my sources.list is pointing to
> unstable. Mind you, gimp1.1 should be in unstable anyways, I think,
> since it's going into 2.2. (or is it?) Clarification and corrections
> are appreciated.
>
> Dazed and Confused. :)
>
Debian has two branchs:
stable: the well-tested, production-level distribuition.
unstable: in-development distribuiton.
When an unstable version is reaching the poit to be stable, it is
"frozen", and then newer features/packages are no more allowed. It's
time to refine the packages to put them in production-level, and soon
release a new stable distro.
At this time, "frozen" means "almost stable", and a newer unstable brach
arises and continue evolving as usual, with newer packages, et cetera.
The next stable version will be Potato, and it will happen soon (I
hope). Meanwhile, the
bleeding-edge/development/explosive/radioactive/unstable is (and will
be, for a while) Woody (v. 2.3 or something bigger).
Taupter
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