On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +1000 Sam Varghese <sam@gnubies.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: > > BTW, what does this "Potato" signify? Is it like each distribution > release > > will have such a name and that > > saying "Potato" release will mean 2.2 r0? Or is there any other > > significance for this? > > All releases of Debian are named after characters from Toy Story. > Potato is Mr Potatohead. The earlier release @.1) was named Slink, > the previous one Hamm etc. The forthcoming one (3.0) is Woody and > the one after that Sid. > I understood that Sid was never meant to be a release name, but always the codename for the current unstable distribution? IIRC this policy was instituted together with the testing distribution (currently Woody). If I have it all correct, this would mean that after the release of Woody as the new stable distribution, the new testing will get another codename, not Sid, right? Mart -- 'Quoth the mailserver: 554!'
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