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Eliminating upgrade confusion



The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems 
to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing". 

Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced
by sarge without his being asked.  Somebody running testing didn't 
want to move from sarge to etch automatically.  (Sid seems to be 
the only stable one.)

Wouldn't things work more smoothly if "stable" and "testing" were 
not allowed in /etc/apt/sources.list or anywhere else except as 
purely informative descriptions? 

-- 
David Jardine

"Running Debian GNU/Linux and
loving every minute of it."  -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)



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