Re: Releasenumbers?

On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 18:25, Tobias Schlitt wrote: > The current stable version is 3.x i think (Woody), isn't the current testing > release 4.x? no it's not, you mix release groups with version numbers. 2.2 Potato 3.0 Woody woody and potato are a codename both were testing some time ago (potato long time ago) Today sarge is testing, and it will become stable after some time, then woody is outdated, and sarge may get 3.2 3.5 or 4.0 unstable is sid, which will never change so what debian does is: they map a release status with a codename currently: stable -> woody testing -> sarge unstable -> sid when sarge is ready it will be: stable -> sarge testing -> $SOME_NEW_GUY_FROM_TOY_STORY unstable -> sid and the new versions (current versions) of the programs like apache, are going always first to sid, after a while of no problems and no critical bugs it goes further to testing (but _only_ that version) So later versions of apache again goto sid. </World of Debian> :-P I think the idea with the linux kernel versions is the best.... -- Mirco 'meebey' Bauer PGP-Key: http://search.keyserver.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x5051C9B9 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GIT d s-: a--- C++ UL++>++++ P L++$>+++$ E W+++$ N o? K- w++>! O- M- V? PS PE+ Y- PGP>++ t 5+ X++ R tv+ b+ DI? D+ G>++ e h! r>++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------