On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 10:14:14PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: | On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 20:54:09 +0000, Pollywog wrote: | > Is "testing" a new designation? I had not seen it before. | | Yes. It's between "stable" and "unstable" - essentially a delayed version of | "unstable" with some control to prevent packages with "important" or higher | bugs to come into it from "unstable". | | > Is "Sid" the name of the next version? | | "sid" is the current "unstable". |
Yes, and AFAIK that 'sid' will be 'unstable' forever. Testing is a new designation that now refers to 'woody'. The purpose of testing is to allow users to get the latest stuff but not unstable. Testing will become stable once the bugs are out. Then a new name will be given for testing. | > I am not familiar with the "Toy Story" characters. | | IIRC, "Sid" was the evil boy next door who tortured toys. | Yes. | HTH, | Ray | -- | PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose | between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would | have the decency to betray his country. | - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan | -D
