Agree wholeheartedly with the above, it would be nice to have testing,stable,oldstable repos instead of OS specific. (we've been using the 'squeeze' repo on our wheezy machines for ages now).

Also agree with Robin, that I don't like version number specific repos, for the same reasons. A clear upgrade path.

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On 15 April 2014 23:59, Robin Sheat <robin@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
Galen Charlton schreef op di 15-04-2014 om 10:15 [-0700]:
> I'd like to tack on a semi-related (or possibly not at all related)
> question.  Should we consider adopting a different set of code
> names/suites for our APT repository?  For example:

My answer here is "yes, but..."

> testing
> stable
> oldstable
> (maybe) reallyoldstable

We probably need to deprecate the squeeze* names, however they do serve
a potential purpose. That is, if we need to build a different version
for different OSes, then we can. However, I don't think this is likely,
and we'd be better off actively avoiding that being a thing we need to
do. Given this, I'd lean towards the names you list above.

I think I can actually make this happen just by setting up some symlinks
in the repo.

> or perhaps go by version number (modified as needed to confirm with
> any toolchain expectations about the format of the suite name)?
>
> 3.16.x
> 3.14.x
> etc.

I've thought about this, and I don't like it. The main reason is that if
people just want to regularly update to be either more bleeding edge or
a bit more conservative, they can track squeeze or oldstable
respectively. If the distribution names are version numbers, then
there's no seamless upgrade path when a version is retired.

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