Hi, [Release Team member hat on, but I only voice my opinion as a member].
On the use of tpu:Personally, until now I fail to see enough value of being able to distinguish unstable and testing to give the package carrying /etc/os-release a permanent exception via tpu.
On Debian version numbers:I my view we only assign version numbers the moment we release. You can see that reflected in the symlink layout of debian/dists and in the trixie/Release file.
Paul
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