Don Armstrong wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I am curious. How does knowing the names further in advance make some > > things easier? > > 1) Tools can include support for releases which are +1 and +2. > > For example, debootstrap needs to know the names of the release so you > can install it. Lots of other tools too. Perhaps that would be a good use case to define new name NextStable rather like the OldStable? > > That both of those are facts make naming troublesome. Later when > > searching the archives for a problem in Jessie we find all manor of > > postings that talk about Jessie but are actually referring to quite a > > different set of bits. > > There's not really anything that can be done about this, beyond people > avoiding describing what is currently testing as what will be the stable > release Jessie. > > And frankly, even Jessie will have changes over its lifetime. Older > posts are always going to be old; they may be accurate now, or they may > not be. Yep. Bob
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