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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