---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 22:54:42 +0800 Subject: Re: Bug#780201: new codename needed for oldstable (due to squeeze-lts) when stable becomes oldstable To: debian-...@lists.debian.org
On 10/03/2015, Andreas Glaeser <bugs.andreas.glae...@freenet.de> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 12:38:29 +0100 > Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> wrote: > >> 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. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- 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/CACX6j8PYcqjGFU=-t_gM2Cr5CYaGqoATKvAawiAQNEg9c=X=c...@mail.gmail.com
