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Adam Conrad
adconrad at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 9 05:03:21 UTC 2006
Jaime Davila wrote:
>
> I see. Is dapper in testing mode?
Dapper is in development currently.
> Are stable and testing the commonly used terms used within ubuntu, or
> just on debian?
"oldstable", "stable", "testing", and "unstable" are Debian terms.
In Ubuntu, we tend to refer to releases only by their codenames (warty,
hoary, breezy, and dapper, so far)
This avoids the confusion we'd have by telling people we currently have
no "oldstable" releases (because we haven't yet dropped support for any
releases), three "stable" releases (warty, hoary, and breezy), no
"testing" release (because we don't use the same release machinery that
Debian does, so don't do "testing migration"), and one "unstable"
release (dapper).
See? Confusing. Hence, no such nomenclature here. :)
> Is dapper still scheduled to become "official" in April?
Yup.
> And, should I be able to move from breezy to dapper by changing my
> sources file and running apt-get upgrade?
Yes again.
... Adam
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