On Wed 08 Jun 2016 at 13:37:47 (+0200), Norbert Kiszka wrote: > Dnia 2016-06-08, śro o godzinie 13:28 +0200, c.hol...@ades.at pisze: > > > > One additional question please: > > Does stable and testing have nicknames too - like unstable = Sid?? > > Stable always have nickname. > > Sid is always sid :) > > Testing is "something" that will be next stable - in this day old stable > become old-stable and... > > ...old-stable has same nickname as it was. New stable will have > offcourse another nickname.
stable *is* a nickname. One day, someone will put a diagram on the Debian website. It might look something like this: Codename Nicknames (directory) (symlinks) experimental rc-buggy (Not a distribution, just an assortment of packages) sid unstable (this symlink never changes) ------------------------ buster stretch <- testing jessie <- stable wheezy <- oldstable squeeze lenny etch sarge woody potato slink hamm bo rex buzz On a Release Day, all the nicknames that have a <- against them are moved upwards by one line. With the exceptions above the ---- line, the collection of packages under a given codename doesn't change. The nicknames do. Also on a Release Day, a release number is applied to the new release. So jessie was released as 8.0 and has been upgraded (renumbered) as far as 8.5. This numbering scheme started with etch (4.0). Before etch, codenames could be released as point releases (sarge was 3.1 but never 3.0). stretch will be 9.0 but isn't there yet. If you feel the need to verify this, just type: $ ftp ftp.debian.org Name: anonymous Password: <your email address> ftp> cd debian ftp> cd dists ftp> ls Cheers, David.
