On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 18:32:20 +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> I suspect the following may be a bit clearer:
Hmm... looks like an eight-bit character I used got dropped silently.
Let's try again, now with clean ASCII...
sid-------------------------------------------
\ \
\ \
\ === etch ========
\
\
== sarge ======ooooo| 3.1 ******
|
|
woody ========ooo| 3.0 ***********|###########
| |
| |
2.2 potato ******|################| [moved off to archive.debian.org]
| |
| |
% $
where "-" == unstable "|" == release of a new stable
"=" == testing "%" == release of woody as 3.0
"*" == stable "$" == release of sarge as 3.1
"#" == oldstable "\" == branching of of a new testing release; older
testing (ooo) slowly frozen to stability
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