I have difficulty remembering the Debian code names for releases Buzz Rex Bo
Hamm Slink Potato Woody Sarge Etch Lenny Squeeze Wheezy Jessie Stretch Buster
Bullseye Bookworm Trixie and Forky.
It's much easier to remember that release numbers are in a sequence 1.1 ... 14.
Quoting from Google's response to the question “why does Debian have code
names?”: « Originally, part of the reason for code names was because it was not
clear whether the next release would be considered a point release or not: " we
didn't know whether etch would be released as Debian 3.2 or Debian 4.0 ". »
Etch was released as Debian 4.0 in May 2010. Is there some reason why Debian
still continues to invent and use code names?
Roger
See also https://lwn.net/Articles/792646/ “Debian and code names” July 3rd 2019.
