Quoting Brad Rogers (b...@fineby.me.uk): > AIUI, that's the wrong way round. Wheezy is a link to stable, jessie > links to testing, etc. > > Consider; old-stable, stable, testing and unstable always exist. The > code names change meaning and fall out of use over time - with the > exception of sid which is always linked to unstable.
In which case you don't understand it. Please don't spread misinformation. Debian codenames do not change and they don't fall out of use. You can see all bar two at http://archive.debian.net/ where the maintainer has forgotten to include buzz and rex (the files are on the site). It's trivial to do the following: $ ftp ftp.debian.org Connected to ftp.debian.org. 220 ftp.debian.org FTP server Name (ftp.debian.org:deblis): anonymous 331 Please specify the password. Password: 230 Login successful. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> cd debian 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> cd dists 250 Directory successfully changed. ftp> ls 200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV. 150 Here comes the directory listing. lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 7 Jul 19 2014 Debian6.0.10 -> squeeze lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 6 Jan 10 10:21 Debian7.8 -> wheezy -rw-rw-r-- 1 1176 1176 723 Jan 10 10:19 README drwxrwsr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 experimental drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:59 jessie drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 jessie-backports drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 jessie-proposed-updates drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 jessie-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 7 May 04 2013 oldstable -> squeeze lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 24 May 04 2013 oldstable-proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 15 May 04 2013 oldstable-updates -> squeeze-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 23 May 04 2013 proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 12 Aug 04 2008 rc-buggy -> experimental drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:59 sid drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Jul 19 2014 squeeze drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 squeeze-lts drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 643072 Apr 16 14:58 squeeze-proposed-updates drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 squeeze-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 6 May 04 2013 stable -> wheezy lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 16 May 05 2013 stable-backports -> wheezy-backports lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 23 May 04 2013 stable-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 14 May 04 2013 stable-updates -> wheezy-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 6 May 04 2013 testing -> jessie lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 23 May 04 2013 testing-proposed-updates -> jessie-proposed-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 14 Oct 15 2013 testing-updates -> jessie-updates lrwxrwxrwx 1 1176 1176 3 Nov 10 2007 unstable -> sid drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Jan 10 11:19 wheezy drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 wheezy-backports drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 wheezy-backports-sloppy drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 163840 Apr 16 14:58 wheezy-proposed-updates drwxr-sr-x 5 1176 1176 4096 Apr 16 14:58 wheezy-updates 226 Directory send OK. ftp> Cheers, David. -- 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/20150416175736.GH8246@alum
