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Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list



Max Hyre <max@hyre.net> writes:

>    So, my modest suggestion is that `stable' as a name
> should be eradicated.  Roughly no downside, only closer
> adherence to the principle of least astonishment.

If you remove 'stable', then you kind of have to remove 'testing' too.
Otherwise, people who follow testing will get a blast of new software
once 'whatever' becomes stable.  And how do you know which code name is
the current stable?  

-- 
John L. Fjellstad
web: http://www.fjellstad.org/          Quis custodiet ipsos custodes



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