Ubuntu release codenames links ?

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

  Debian provides three "virtual" releases, namely stable, testing and
unstable. Those refer to actual releases, like woody and sarge.

  Does Ubuntu provide the same facility ?

  Like stable -> hoary
       unstable -> breezy


  Some pointers, from debian faq :
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames

5.3 What are all those names like slink, potato, etc.?
They are just "codenames". When a Debian distribution is in the
development stage, it has no version number but a codename. The purpose
of these codenames is to make easier the mirroring of the Debian
distributions (if a real directory like unstable suddenly changed its
name to stable, a lot of stuff would have to be needlessly downloaded
again).

Currently, stable is a symbolic link to woody (i.e. Debian GNU/Linux
3.0) and testing is a symbolic link to sarge. This means that woody is
the current stable distribution and sarge is the current testing
distribution.

unstable is a permanent symbolic link to sid, as sid is always the
unstable distribution (see What about "sid"?, Section 5.4).


-- 
Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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