Re: branding debian releases
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On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
>
> I'd say no. If you're tracking sarge/testing, what happens when sarge
> is promoted to stable? If you specify sarge, your machine tracks what
> is now the stable distro; if you specify testing, your machine tracks
> the new testing distro. This is an important distinction.
>
> The whole problem here is that we're trying to assign characteristics
> that just don't exist. The only definitions that exist are here:
>
> http://www.debian.org/releases/
>
> Unstable is where active development of Debian occurs.
>
> Testing contains packages that haven't been accepted into a "stable"
> release yet, but they are in the queue for that.
>
> Stable contains the latest officially released distribution of Debian.
>
> Experienced users can predict the qualities of these distributions to
> varying degrees, but the fact is, the above three statements are the
> only defining characteristics.
>
>
Instead of changing the naming conventions used to denote the versions,
it's better people utilitze that precious time in understanding the
actualy theory behind it. It looks like something complicated to
understand but isn't so.
rrs
> --
> monique
>
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