Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-25 Thread Jamin W. Collins
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 08:55:41AM -0500, John Fleming wrote: > > So will there be some warning preceding the release such that those of > us sitting on the fence will have a last minute chance to decide > whether we want our sources.list to point to "sarge" or to "testing"? > - John That can be

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-25 Thread John Fleming
> Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, > which is a cloned copy of sarge which points to the exact same packages. > > I think I get it. The real entities are woody, sarge, etch, sid; > unstable/testing/stable/oldstable are just convenient shortcuts. So will there

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 08:00:35PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > is changed to point to sarge and oldstable points to woody. Immediately > after the release, testing will continue to work as it does now. Except the thing testing is symlinked to is no longer sarge but etch, which is a cloned copy

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Brian Nelson
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 06:14:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is > > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from > > Unstable to Testing? > > Testing becomes f

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Travis Crump
Paul Johnson wrote: William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is fo

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: >> No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing >> becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is b

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Paul Johnson
<#secure method=pgp mode=sign> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from > Unstable to Testing? Testing becomes

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 02:31:12PM -0400, William Ballard wrote: > What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? > > What properties will hold true after the fork? > > I presume that "stable" simply becomes symlinked to "sarge" instead of > "woody." Correct. > Is a copy of the "sarge" arch

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 07:28:22AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > No. Unstable (sid) will always be unstable. Testing > becomes the new stable, and then a new testing is born > (etch?). Could you be more precise? What is renamed, what is forked, what is cloned? What properties will hold true aft

Re: Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Zachary Rizer
--- "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become > Testing or is > Testing simply empty until new programs gradually > migrate from Unstable > to Testing? > > I have been regularly doing dist-upgrade to Testing > regularly for over a > ye

Does Unstable become Testing?

2004-09-24 Thread Thomas H. George
When Sarge is released does Unstable suddenly become Testing or is Testing simply empty until new programs gradually migrate from Unstable to Testing? I have been regularly doing dist-upgrade to Testing regularly for over a year and have been very happy with the results. No significant instab