How about getting rid of codenames altogether? Like we use unstable for unstable, experimental for experimental as it already is, no testing and buster but debian11, debian12, etc.
Although it is eliminating some funs but it is much more predictable and simple to remember. I also confused squeeze with stretch. Yao Wei (This email is sent from a phone; sorry for HTML email if it happens.) > On Jun 28, 2019, at 04:17, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 01:11:09PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:46:00AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: >>>> Related to that I would like to be able to write something like >>>> deb http://deb.debian.org/debian debian11 main >>>> deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security debian11-security main >>>> in sources.list as codenames confuse people. >>> >>> Can you please elaborate on the "confuse people"? >> I guess only (most?) Debian contributors and hardcore Debian users >> remember the order of the codenames and their mappings to current >> stable/oldstable/testing and to numeric versions. > > If even that. > > Potato was followed by sarge, but I think there was something in between > (although I'm not sure). There's an etch somewhere, and a lenny. > > But what were the orderings again? I honestly don't remember. > > Yes please, let's use debian11 in the URL somewhere. > > -- > To the thief who stole my anti-depressants: I hope you're happy > > -- seen somewhere on the Internet on a photo of a billboard >
