And I'd like to give a really easy-to-understand picture. What I'm looking for is perhaps more general:
- Not release specific -> No updates required -> Works as a general view of how Debian releases are organized - Does not relate to changing statistics such as number of packages -> Relates to how it works in practice - Unstable is a random (averagely growing) graph -> Illustrates how the packages are accepted into Debian and -> What makes Debian so impressively stable :=) I can see a few problems in my own graph, though:- The balance of maturity (stability) and functionality (new features) is confusing because the stability is not illustrated, and unstable appears as the most feature-rich release. - Changes in release policy might make the graph (especially for the stable branch).
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:32:20 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:I suspect the following may be a bit clearer:sid-------------------------------------------\ \ \ \ \ === etch ========\\ == sarge ======ooooo| 3.1 ******| | woody ========ooo| 3.0 ***********|########### | | | | 2.2 potato ******|################| [moved off to archive.debian.org]| | | |% $ where "-" == unstable "|" == release of a new stable "=" == testing "%" == release of woody as 3.0 "*" == stable "$" == release of sarge as 3.1"#" == oldstable "\" == branching of of a new testing release; older testing (ooo) slowly frozen to stability
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