Re: branding debian releases
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:13:41AM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:19:39 +0300
> Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> wrote:
> >>
> >> sarge -- alternatives to "TESTING":
> >
> > - desktop
> > - user
> > - mostly stable
> > - freezing
>
In that case it should be:
Unstable -
Workstation
active
latest
user
testing -
testing
testbed
stable -
server
frozen
> Some of these would actually be dangerous, as they communicate something
> about testing which is *not true*. The descriptors you chose for each of
> the three distributions give the impression that the stability (in the
> bugginess sense, not in the "unchanging-with-time" sense) and usability
> of the three form a spectrum with sid the worst, stable the best, and
> testing in-between. That's wrong. It may be correct, or close to
> correct, right now, when the main thing holding up the release is the
> installer. But it's not the general case -- sometimes, testing can be
> more broken than sid (because of packages missing from testing that are
> present in sid, security updates that haven't made it to testing that
> are present in sid, etc.). Running testing takes work; and if you don't
> have to deal with things like a broken glibc or something like that, you
> *do* have to deal with things like a nonfunctioning GNOME or KDE, or a
> security update to perl that's four weeks behind sid, etc.
>
> -c
>
>
> --
> Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net
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>
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> have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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