Intentionally cross posted. On Friday, January 12, 2018 04:58:38 AM Richard Hector wrote: > Apologies for my misunderstanding. I hadn't made the mental link from > wheezy to LTS (I don't (think I) have any wheezy machines left myself, > but have acquired clients who do).
Aside: For those on the debian-user lists, the thread came from the debian- backports list, but my frustration should probably be expressed more to the debian-user list (or debian-developer list, assuming there is such a list (to which I am not subscribed). I like Debian, a lot, and have used it since 5.n (was that Lenny??), and will probably stick with it as my main daily user system (for some special purposes I will install other distros--e.g., I want to do some development for an application (Scintilla) that requires C++ version 17 (iiuc) (although they do have an LTS support version that can be compiled with C++ version 11). But the various names and use of those names gets very frustrating for me, and I suspect I am not the only one. The numbered versions, the Toy Story names, and then the testing, stable, old stable, old old stable is just frustrating. I'm not proposing a soltuion, I'm just expressing frustration. I guess, for me, at first glance, the numbered versions seem easiest (and most straightforward) to me. I do susbscribe to the backports list. Maybe someone will tell me that as an "ordinary user" I shouldn't, but I think others like myself may subscribe just to keep somewhat informed. Anyway, have a good day.
