Am Sonntag, 28. März 2004 23:03 schrieb Debian Bug Tracking System:
> We do not want a vast quantity of users with
> "sarge" in their sources.list, who will then be left without security
> updates and a trivial upgrade path when sarge+1 is released.
OK, now I got it, we where thinking in different directions ;-)
So pointing to sarge is not foolproof the sarge+1 will be stable.
And installed systems now pointing to a (near realease) testing will never
enter stable.
To provide for both ends I'd suggest:
-- Have prerelease installs default to point to the fixed name (sarge)
-- At release time change installation default to point to stable as usual,
and issue a security patch to change explicit sarge systems to point to
stable.
cheers,
Christian
