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Re: Re: Debian has turned unusable.



On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 04:39:22PM -0500, Kevin Ruml wrote:
> This topic/suggestion that desktop users should use "unstable" rather
> than "stable", since it's no more unstable than other distros latest
> releases, comes up regularly.  What is the reason "unstable" isn't
> renamed to something else to dispel the stigma the name gives?

The name's hardcoded all over the place, unfortunately. Even if we
wanted to, it'd actually be rather a large amount of effort to rename
it, effort we could more productively spend in finishing off the new
installer so that we can release sarge.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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