Re: Only binaries?
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote:
> 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?
See -
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames
and
http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sid
kent
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