On Mon, 15 Dec 2014, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am curious. How does knowing the names further in advance make some > things easier?
1) Tools can include support for releases which are +1 and +2. For example, debootstrap needs to know the names of the release so you can install it. Lots of other tools too. > That both of those are facts make naming troublesome. Later when > searching the archives for a problem in Jessie we find all manor of > postings that talk about Jessie but are actually referring to quite a > different set of bits. There's not really anything that can be done about this, beyond people avoiding describing what is currently testing as what will be the stable release Jessie. And frankly, even Jessie will have changes over its lifetime. Older posts are always going to be old; they may be accurate now, or they may not be. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com Clean living is less fun and you wind up feeling stupid when you still die. -- a softer world #489 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141215194749.gs31...@rzlab.ucr.edu
