Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released
On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:01:05PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 04:13:43PM -0700, nate wrote:
> > meanwhile life continues with testing and unstable as if
> > the new stable was never released.
>
> Unless it's changed starting with woody, frozen and testing are
> temporary trees, they're mutually exclusive, and only appear when a
> distribution is about to be released.
Testing isn't temporary, and now points to sarge, which will be the next
release. Frozen is no longer used.
> unstable (woody)-+-(sid)-------------------------------
> \---testing-\ <-woody
> \---frozen-\ <-woody
> stable (potato)-----------------------------\\--stable (woody)
> \-(off to the archive)
More accurately:
unstable (sid)-------------------------------------------
| | | | | (package by package)
testing (woody)------------------------\--testing (sarge)
stable (potato)-------------------------\\-stable (woody)
\-(off to the archive)
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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