Am Dienstag, den 25.06.2019, 11:48 -0400 schrieb Michael Stone: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 05:01:48PM +0200, Alf Gaida wrote: > > Only a few remarks as former simple user and now maintainer: > > * Please don't mix things: release names has a value, distribution > > names like oldoldstable, oldstable, stable, testing, unstable has > > their value too > > oldoldstable has the value of demonstrating some of what's wrong > with > the current system
Then running wheezy will be fine once buster is released, because oldoldstable will point to jessie and wheezy won't have a release name any more? Some admins ask: "How many reboots until the next Debian release?" Others ask: "How many Debian releases until the next reboot?" I can images systems that are getting bought, setup, and after several years shutdown and retired without rebooting or dist-upgrading them. -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer 1&1 IONOS Cloud GmbH | Greifswalder Str. 207 | 10405 Berlin | Germany E-mail: benjamin.dr...@cloud.ionos.com | Web: www.ionos.de Head Office: Berlin, Germany District Court Berlin Charlottenburg, Registration number: HRB 125506 B Executive Management: Christoph Steffens, Matthias Steinberg, Achim Weiss Member of United Internet
