Kernel update question

[Michael M. Moore]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 17:11 -0700, Jim Smith wrote:
> 
>  1. /usr/share/doc/grub/NEWS.Debian.gz"
> 
> I read the above and am confused. It refers to Debian Etch, is that not
> their unstable/testing release?

No, Etch is currently "oldstable":

The next release of Debian is codenamed squeeze — no release date has
been set 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny) — current stable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) — current oldstable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge) — obsolete stable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody) — obsolete stable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) — obsolete stable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (slink) — obsolete stable release 
      * Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm) — obsolete stable release 

"Sid" is Debian's unstable branch.  "Sid" is never released.  Packages
in Sid migrate to testing (currently, "Squeeze") and eventually testing
is frozen, bugs are squashed, and it is released as the new stable, at
which point the previous stable release becomes oldstable and a new
testing branch with a new code name is created.

See: http://www.debian.org/releases/

-- 
Michael M.