Ethan Benson wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 05:06:53PM +0100, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > > > You got confused by a unique event. sid will be (and has been if I'm not > > mistaken) unstable forever now. The difference between testing and woody > > (or later releases) will be when it becomes stable (or frozen?), where > > testing will basically go on as ever, but woody will basically stay the > > same and get more outdated each day. It depends what you want, but I > > suspect most people want the alias. > > sid == unstable permanently if its not sufficiently clear. > > sid will never be released, so using sid instead of unstable is pointless. > > testing will always point to the current testing distribution, be it > woody or sarge (a possible name for the next release after woody). > > woody will eventually be retagged as `stable' where it never gets > updates like potato, other then security. the transistion from > testing to stable is not entirely clear.. since there seems to be no > real, enforced freeze packages keep going into woody, woody keeps > getting broken and more packages then go into woody and so on. > > with the current freeze proceedure i expect woody to become stable > around 2014.
Creeping featurism. One of the top five enemies of software/distro releases. The more things change .... Thanks guys, I believe the fog is starting to lift, just bit. a
