Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:10:47PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote: > > The Debian home page (http://www.debian.org/) notes the announcement of > > the "Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0," and the page linked by > > that note says "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date > > for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian > > GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'." However, elsewhere on the Debian home page > > I see: "The latest stable release of Debian is 3.1." Why doesn't it say > > 4.0? > > Because the statement "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date > for the next release of its distribution" was made without the consent of > the release team. and misrepresents the realities of the release process. > 3.1 is still the latest stable release of Debian.
For what it's worth the date is from the release team that wanted to issue a press release containing the status of the release. References: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/07/msg00005.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/05/msg00000.html Regards, Joey -- All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory... -- Larry Wall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]