On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 4:39 PM Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 2:08 PM Ansgar wrote: > > > what do people think about getting rid of current suite names ("stable", > > "testing", "unstable") for most purposes? We already recommend using > > codenames instead as those don't change their meaning when a new release > > happens. > > I use these (testing, etc) so getting rid of them would be annoying.
I also should mention that I use all of stable stable-updates proposed-updates and the equivalents for old/oldold. I have them in the apt sources of a chdist so I can easily look up old versions, do apt-file searches on old versions, look up non-amd64 architecture info etc. I would also love to have stable-backports be a thing, so I don't have to change my chdist apt sources from codename1-backports to codename2-backports every time a release happens. I use chdist for when I'm offline or when I want to see what is on the mirrors, since rmadison shows the ftp-master view. PS: apt-venv is another option for this use-case. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise