[huskerlug] Re: Sarge now stable, and "testing" is called Etch. ???
- From: Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:46:35 -0600
Here is a link to a progress chart you can use to monitor Sarge release
critical bugs:
http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/
Follow the green line. 141 to go...
On Thursday 06 January 2005 17:26, GreyGeek wrote:
> On Thursday 06 January 2005 09:26 am, Martin Wolff wrote:
> > Good eye, how did you come up with this?
> > Do you read the Debian docs each night before you go to bed? :-)
>
> Actually, yes!
>
> I've just switched to Debian after 6 years with SUSE and a year with
> Mandrake, and I am bringing myself up to speed on Debian ASAP.
>
> It looks to me that the inclusion of this information in the latest
> Debian reference manual is a precursor to events about to happen.
> It wouldn't make sense to have this statement laying around in a
> primary document for 1, 2 or more months so I except there will be an
> announcement about Sarge's promotion to "Stable" before the end of
> January.
>
> > On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 19:42:00 -0500, GreyGeek <jkreps@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> wrote:
> > > Is someone jumping the gun, or is this just anticipation?
> > >
> > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch-system.en.h
> > >tml
> > >
> > > "2.1.7 Debian distribution codenames
> > >
> > > Physical directory names in the dists directory, such as sarge/
> > > and etch/, are just "codenames". When a Debian distribution is in
> > > the development stage, it has no version number, but a codename
> > > instead. The purpose of these codenames is to make the mirroring
> > > of the Debian distributions easier (if a real directory like
> > > unstable suddenly changed its name to stable/, a lot of stuff
> > > would have to be needlessly downloaded again).
> > >
> > > Currently, "stable" is a symbolic link to sarge, and "testing" is
> > > a symbolic link to etch. This means that Sarge is the current
> > > stable distribution and Etch is the current testing distribution.
> > >
> > > unstable/ is a permanent symbolic link to sid/, as Sid is always
> > > the unstable distribution. "
> > >
> > > Are we going to hear an announcement shortly?
> > > --
> > > GreyGeek
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