On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 01:57:56AM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > The enormous confusion arising from the release of sarge seems > to have arisen from the use of the words "stable" and "testing". > > Somebody who was running stable didn't want woody to be replaced > by sarge without his being asked. Somebody running testing didn't > want to move from sarge to etch automatically. (Sid seems to be > the only stable one.) > > Wouldn't things work more smoothly if "stable" and "testing" were > not allowed in /etc/apt/sources.list or anywhere else except as > purely informative descriptions? >
I am not a Debian developer. I am a user. But I know enough about Debian to know that the stable,testing,unstable/woody,sarge,etch,sid naming system serves the needs of the core Debian community very well. People who say "but it's too difficult for newbies" miss the point. It took the Debian community a while to arrive at this way of doing things. It is a good way for a lot of people, but maybe not for newbies who think they can create a better way through the exercise of pure rhetoric without benefit of experience. I take comfort in the sure knowledge that people who offer these suggestions will _never_ become members of the inner circle that makes Debian work. Read the Debian documentation. Read Debian policy. Read, read, read. Let's stop this thread. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
