Re: Difference between woody and potato

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

masee@usa.net (Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong) wrote:
>>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
>> 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...
   ^^^^^^^^

I think you mean 'stable' there :)

>> 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?  :)

We've already had that :)

The order was:

1.0         [never really existed; a CD-ROM vendor mistakenly released a
             not-quite-ready version as 1.0, so the version number was
             bumped up to 1.1 to avoid confusion]
1.1         buzz
1.2         rex
1.3         bo
2.0         hamm
2.1         slink  (current stable)
future 2.2  potato (current frozen)
future 2.3  woody  (current unstable)

See:

  http://www.debian.org/~elphick/manuals.html/project-history/index.html

... or the debian-history package for more information.

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]