Hi, On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:32:20PM +0200, Teodor MICU wrote: > 2011/1/27 Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org>: > > The volatile functionality will be provided by squeeze-updates instead. > > I think "squeeze-updates" is more appropriate than "-volatile" as the > target for accepted uploads to "squeeze-proposed-updates". I think > this is not only a cosmetic change, but also one that will allow you > to overcome the situations like the one from Debian 5.0 regarding the > upload of spamassassin via volatile for 2010 new year change. > > However, I see that "testing-updates" was not created as an alias to > "squeeze-updates" the same way "testing-proposed-updates" is an alias > to "squeeze-proposed-updates". This should not be done right now, but > it should be done (probably by FTP team) during the "testing" -> > "stable" transition next week when Debian 6.0 will be released.
possibly. The only value I see in this is the transparent "we upgrade to the
next stable version when it's released" way of upgrading.[1] Apart from that
we're not entirely unhappy with only using codenames instead of suite
aliases.
Kind regards
Philipp Kern
[1] Which means skipping release notes, recommended upgrading procedures and
the like.
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