On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 11:14:29AM +0200, Mart van de Wege wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +1000 > Sam Varghese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:25:01PM +0530, Gurusami Annamalai wrote: > > > BTW, what does this "Potato" signify? Is it like each distribution > > release > > > will have such a name and that > > > saying "Potato" release will mean 2.2 r0? Or is there any other > > > significance for this? > > > > All releases of Debian are named after characters from Toy Story. > > Potato is Mr Potatohead. The earlier release @.1) was named Slink, > > the previous one Hamm etc. The forthcoming one (3.0) is Woody and > > the one after that Sid. > > > I understood that Sid was never meant to be a release name, but always the > codename for the current unstable distribution? IIRC this policy was > instituted together with the testing distribution (currently Woody). > If I have it all correct, this would mean that after the release of Woody > as the new stable distribution, the new testing will get another codename, > not Sid, right?
See - http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-codenames and http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-sid kent -- From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke