On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:02AM -0800, joseph de los santos wrote: > > what is the difference between frozen, potato, and unstable. arent they > all the same?
"potato", as well as "slink" and "woody", are code names for the various Debian releases. Slink is currently designated as stable, meaning that it's been tested and everything works well. The only updates will be for security purposes or important bugfixes. Potato is currently designated frozen, which means that no new packages will be accepted. All bugs are being fixed in preparation for a stable designation, if you have the skills and feel like helping you can install potato, look for bugs, and file reports (preferably with patches), or even go through the BTS and submit patches for outstanding bug reports. (This isn't to say you can't use it if you don't have bug-fixing skills, of course). Woody is currently designated as unstable. Major new versions of packages, completely new packages, massive reorganizations, policy updates, and other things that can cause big trouble happen here. Feel free to use it if you want, but be prepared for possible breakage and please file bug reports! At the moment, potato and frozen are the same. Earlier in the month, potato and unstable were the same, and there was no frozen at that point. Sometime in the future potato and stable will be the same. -- finger for GPG public key. 8 Jan 2000 - Old email addresses removed from key, new added
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