On Tue 27 Jul 2021 at 15:37:24 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 05:49:31PM +0300, Gunnar Gervin wrote:
[...] > > Release > > Major release. Strictly, Debian has several releases in play at any one > time. OK, if it relates to stable and oldstable. > There is a section called Experimental which has a few packages but is not > really a release - it's a staging area for experimental packages. Almost > certainly for developers only or people on the very bleeding edge. > > There is always a subset of Debian that is Unstable - codename Sid. > > There's a release that is Testing - currently Bullseye - which will be > Debian 11 when released.Under normal circumstances, packages would percolate > from Unstable to Testing, but at the moment Testing is frozen for release > when it's ready. I wouldn't see experimental, unstable or testing as Releases. > There's the stable branch: Currently Buster - Debian 10.10. That's the present Release. To nitpick - I'd see buster as the one, true Debian (for the next few weeks). > There's oldstable - Debian 9 - and oldoldstable - Debian 8 under support > as either LTS or ELTS. This support is not engineered by Debian. -- Brian.
