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Re: [SUMMARY] About terminology for stable/testing/unstable and related issues



On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 06:29:52PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> I take the argument of "suite" being used in several tools as an
> argument to increase the weight of "suite" but not a decisive
> argument.
> 
> After all, tools can be changed...:-)
> 
> The terminology definition could also mention, in the case, we decide
> for using "branch" that the term "suite" is also in use....until it is
> removed from the tools and documentations using it.

If stable/testing/unstable are branches (or suites), what are Ubuntu,
DeMuDi, SkoleLinux et al Debian based distributions? I would have
called them branches, from a version control point of view.

-- 
Tapio Lehtonen
tapio.lehtonen@iki.fi

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