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Re: Difference between woody and potato



>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:

    > On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 07:44:58PM -0500, 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.

    > potato and woody are just code names. The actual "unstable" is
    > bleeding edge, and frozen is the next release. Currently potato
    > is frozen (a la Debian 2.2) and woody is the new
    > unstable. Sooner or later potato will release and become
    > unstable...then some time down the road woody will freeze and
    > become frozen...and the whole cycle starts again (but something
    > else will be the new unstable, not sure of the code name
    > though).

Buzz perhaps?  :)

    > Ben

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