Curt Howland wrote:
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Having been using Debian since 1995, I consider myself to have some
benefit of experience.
One of the first things I do in any Debian installation is to
edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change "stable" to whatever the name
of the release is. Exactly what David Jardine suggested be the
default.
I do it for exactly the same reason he stated. Because "stable"
doesn't always point to the same archive.
With the run-up to the Sarge release, I've seen many people who are
using "testing" what to do. Invariably, the suggestion is to change
their sources.list from "testing" to Sarge to avoid confusion. All
Mr. Jardine did was suggest this as the default, and for that he gets
flamed.
I agree with Mr. Jardine, an upgrade should be a deliberate act. Since
the installer is revamped with every "release", it is a simple thing
to change the texts from "stable" to the name of the release.
I will file a "wish list" bug on it, suggesting the change.
Curt-
Thanks Curt!
That could be a nice things to put on a wish list.
I guess many users choose sarge testing cause woody was pretty outdated.
However, i'm not a purist and thought i'd just stick with sarge when i
get stable - at least for the first years.
I did my last upgrade on the 04/06/05 and avoided the big mess. However
some of my friends are quiet upset.
I remember that in the beginning i used Sarge, each time i had to get a
new apps or do an upgrade, i was going on my debian repository webpage
to check out sarge was still on testing. Then i quit checking.
So, yes, by default, it could be great that the installer put the real
name of the version cause for certain users, the "slide" looked more
like a grind.
G
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