On 10/03/2015, Andreas Glaeser <bugs.andreas.glae...@freenet.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:38:29 +0100
> Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> when jessie will be released, wheezy will become oldstable and we'll need
>> a
>> new alias for squeeze, as various tools internally work with aliases. (The
>>
>> security tracker comes to my mind, but also the Release files it seems.
>> And
>> probably more.)
>>
>> I believe it's the ftp teams duty / joy to decide this name and would like
>> to
>> ask you to do soon, so that various places can be prepared for the joyful
>> day
>> we release jessie.
>>
>> Current suggestions I've heard (and liked) are "oldoldstable" and
>> "veryoldstable".
>>
>> I *dislike* "obsoletestable" and "stalestable" as they are either wrong
>> (squeeze is not obsolete) or carry a bad connotation.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>>      Holger
>
> What about 'extremely-stable' ??
>

Why not simply use the states
experimental
unstable
testing

and for the stable version
stable and version number (eg Debian7)

and all preceding versions,
version number
eg
Debian6 LTS
Debian 5
Debian4
etc

Seems logical, and, meaningful, and, simple enough to me.


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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............

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