Re: Moving from testing to stable?

[Dave Sherohman <esper@sherohman.org>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:58:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Does anybody know why a fresh sarge install (at least up to RC1, which
> is what I used the last time) puts 'testing' into the sources.list
> instead of 'sarge'?  I found that a little bit irritating (although I
> know how the transition is going to be handled).

I would guess that it's because most people seem to be following a
status (stable/testing/unstable) rather than a specific version
(woody/sarge).  i.e., Most people using testing/sarge seem to be
doing so because they want quicker updates than they would get if
they were on stable/woody and they would be annoyed if their updates
suddenly stopped when sarge became stable.

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