Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development versions?
Actually,
Michael has stated the small point I was trying to make, and better than
I did in my original post.
As I said, "It's just a thought."
montefin
> Michalowski Thierry wrote:
>
> I think he simply suggest to call the distributions with less
> pejorative names.
> Many users are afraid of "frozen" or "unstable" or "radioactive"
> software, so they may just lay way back in the Debian versioning
> because they are afraid of the name, not because they _do_ want the
> bullet-proof stability of the "stable" Debian version.
>
> This would lead to these links:
>
> standard --> slink
> prerelease --> potato
> development --> woody
>
> exactly replacing these:
>
> stable --> slink
> frozen --> potato
> unstable --> woody
>
> My .02 EUR
> Thierry
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian May [mailto:bam@debian.org]
> > Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:59 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Why not Standard, Pre-Release, and Development
> versions?
> >
> >
> > >>>>> "montefin" == montefin <montefin@finux.com> writes:
> >
> > montefin> Is there any requirement that Debian releases _must_
> be
> > montefin> labeled Stable, Frozen and Unstable?
> >
> > montefin> IMO, those labels are misleading and/or unnecassrily
> > montefin> pejorative.
> >
> > Not sure what the problem is...
> >
> > montefin> Certainly, today, Slink is the current Standard Debian
>
> > montefin> version.
> >
> > so, the following symlinks are currently used:
> >
> > stable --> slink
> > frozen --> potato
> > unstable --> woody
> >
> > montefin> Soon it will be displaced, as the Standard version, by
>
> > montefin> Potato, which hopefully will soon emerge from its
> > montefin> Pre-Release lockdown.
> >
> > When potato is officially released, the sym-links will change:
> >
> > stable --> potato
> > unstable --> woody
> >
> > If I have missed the point, somebody else can fill in the details
> > I missed ;-).
> > --
> > Brian May <bam@debian.org>
> >
> >
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