On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 05:39:04PM +0200, The deity team wrote: > After much discussion, the deity team has now picked an official > stanza on what a version number says about the stability and quality > of a software product: > > 16 years after the initial announcement[0] we are pleased to announce > apt in version "1.0.0.0b" as a birthday present to everyone caring > deeply about numbers. > > Everyone else will find in this beta^Wbinary release the fulfilment of > a longstanding dream: /usr/bin/apt provided by apt rather than java. > > We want to thank the java community for deprecating their "Annotation > Processing Tool" a long time ago and the java maintainers for > preparing the takeover by us. > > Our newest addition to the apt family is intended as a user interface > and comes therefore bundled with a bunch of configuration and > interface changes compared to its siblings – but we don't want to blow > the surprise, so play with it for yourself! No worries through, > /usr/bin/apt-* will keep working just as before. > > But a word of caution: the "/usr/bin/apt" binary is still work in > progress, so now is the time to speak up if you miss features or find > bugs and patch the hell out of/into it for a nice Debian > freeze&release in November. :) > > > 16 years old and still ever changing: Not even the name remains > stable. What used to be called "deity" was announced as "Apt", first > released as "APT" [1], shipped as "apt-get" and "apt-cache", > interpreted as "A Package Tool" and "Advanced Package Tool" and is now > also available as "apt" … But the initial wisdom holds: "it's still a > good word in its own right". And this word has surely influenced the > way we manage our software on phones, servers and space stations. It > also still stirs envy among users and developers outside the Debian > universe – and rightly so! ;) > > This would not have been possible without contributions by hundreds of > people in code, documentation, translations, bugreports and support! > Thank YOU for all this work – and please keep it coming! :) > > A very special thanks also goes out to the original authors: Your > little baby is now a sweet teenager who can legally drink beer! [2] > > Who would have guessed that 16 years ago? Do you remember what you did > on the first April in 1998? What is the first thing you thought while > reading this mail? And most important of all: Have you mooed today? >
I think I was just pleased that I'd thought of the name and that Jason, Manoj and others had accepted it - it defused an almighty flamewar :) > It is "Sweet 16"-APT-1.0-Release-Partytime, so feel free to join the > fun and tell us your answers or anything else you want to share! > de...@lists.debian.org and #debian-apt are waiting for you. > > > Best regards and: Moo! > > Your APT Development Team > > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/04/msg00027.html > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1998/04/msg00274.html > [2] based on current team member origins. Your mileage may vary. > We recommend tea (with a lacing of milk maybe) while working apt > though. Super cow recommends that you smash some milk instead. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140401153904.GA27105@bod Andy Cater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140401215359.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk
