I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less pejorative names.
Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive" software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning because they are afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the bullet-proof stability of the "stable" Debian version.
This would lead to these links:
standard --> slink
prerelease --> potato
development --> woody
exactly replacing these:
stable --> slink
frozen --> potato
unstable --> woody
My .02 €
Thierry
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian May [mailto:bam@debian.org]
> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:59 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?
>
>
> >>>>> "montefin" == montefin <montefin@finux.com> writes:
>
> montefin> Is there any requirement that Debian releases _must_ be
> montefin> labeled Stable, Frozen and Unstable?
>
> montefin> IMO, those labels are misleading and/or unnecassrily
> montefin> pejorative.
>
> Not sure what the problem is...
>
> montefin> Certainly, today, Slink is the current Standard Debian
> montefin> version.
>
> so, the following symlinks are currently used:
>
> stable --> slink
> frozen --> potato
> unstable --> woody
>
> montefin> Soon it will be displaced, as the Standard version, by
> montefin> Potato, which hopefully will soon emerge from its
> montefin> Pre-Release lockdown.
>
> When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change:
>
> stable --> potato
> unstable --> woody
>
> If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details
> I missed ;-).
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