Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 released
Potato will sorely be missed. It was a good distro.
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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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