Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it
Hi !
I'm actually the one who launched this subject. Arguments have fused
quite well. I think now everybody knows about packages versions and
repositories.
I let you remember what was the questions i firstly ask.
I run sarge since september and i really appreciate it. I used to update
&& upgrade once a month.
However, i thought i'll stick with sarge when it'd be stable, at least
for one year.
By default, source.lists uses the naming "stable", "testing" and
"unstable"; However, you can use instead "woody" or "sarge" that would
be simlinks that will always point to the right directory, whatever of
the eventual switch.
The 06/06/2005, debian performed what i would call a "BIG SWITCH".
As my source.lists was pointing at "testing" and as i'm not spending my
day to look at the debian news, i could have switched to etch without
even knowing it! Fortunately, my last update && upgrade was from
02/06/2005. However, some friends of mine, did it the 07/06/05 and are
now running Etch which they didn't want. They feel it as something quite
unfair.
Therefore, i would just recommand debian to use by default the name of
the distro version in the sources.list. "BIG SWITCH" happen quite rarely
(once every 2 year or something like that), but this should be something
to think about.
Oh yeah, i'm thinking about something else that could wake up some more
questions...
G
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