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Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released



>>>>> "Paul" == Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

Paul> Someone backronymed sid to "still in development."  The powers
Paul> that be thought it was good, so sid now sticks with unstable
Paul> instead of moving on to testing, which got assigned the name
Paul> sarge.

Nah.  sid was always a never-to-be-released tree.  After all, why would
you want to name your release after an evil kid who destroyed toys?  sid
used to be used just for architectures that were not ready to be
released yet.

Before the testing tree was created (some time after Potato was
released), unstable used to be named after the upcoming release.  After
the testing tree was created, unstable was renamed sid, and the new
testing tree was named after the upcoming release.

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