On Thursday June 9 2005 4:57 pm, David Jardine wrote: > 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. Then "stable" is what he should be putting in sources.list. > Somebody running testing didn't > want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid seems to be > the only stable one.) Then "sarge" is what he should be putting in sources.list. > 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? No. You eliminate the possibility of the second user getting what they want. -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo@ursine.ca http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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