Benjamin Sher wrote: > What happens when you find a source for certain applications, for > example, mplayer or whatever, that uses the term "sarge" instead > of "stable". Are you as the user allowed to change the word? > > Aren't "stable" and "sarge" interchangeable in apt-get/synaptic? There is no magic going on here. Apt uses sources.list to build an URL. If the server has a symlink between sarge and stable then either will work and do the same thing, otherwise not. Take a look at the links in ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists -- see shy jo
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