Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
David Jardine wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 08:12:27PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
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".
Not familiar with this enormous confusion.
Well, I've seen seen some of your helpful replies to a number of
questions on this list in the last few days, so I can't believe
you're not familiar with it.
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.)
No, you are describing people who are running woody and sarge and
should
have those in their sources.list.
Exactly. But do we realise, as beginners, what the implications are
of putting "stable" or "testing" in sources.list? If we didn't know
we could use these words (or if we knew we couldn't), we wouldn't.
But we do and we get ourselves into a mess. I think you're
overestimating the ability of people like me to really grasp the
whole picture.
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?
It would suck, because all my systems that constantly track testing
couldn't. The stable release is irellivant, I want these machines to
continue to track testing. Just for example.
But surely this is just a question of changing something once every
couple of years and being in control of the time you change it. For
someone who knows his way around the system I can't see that this
would be a problem.
i'm alright with that : having the choice sto specify "testing" or
"stable" is nice.
But it's the default conf. For most users, it would be much more
apropriate for the default conf to be the name of the version. This
would eleiminate great doubt. Cause now, i don't know what i'm running
and as its about 1 year the i quietly use sarge testing and no had
anyproblem, i really feel its crazy such things can happen.
G
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