[conspire] Fwd: wheezy is OUT. tonight. Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: BAD meeting for 2013-05 (and mini-installfests, and ...)

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Tony Godshall (togo at of.net):

> this relates to installling Debian Linux, so I'll forward it to
> Conspire.  in SF, tonight.  Close to BART and Caltrain and Metreon
> (movies, parking)

Coolio.  In case people don't know, the release process is implemented
at a mechanical level by just repointing the 'stable' symlink on the
package repositories (and the 'testing' symlink, please creating an
'oldstable' one, etc.).  In this case, 'stable' has been relinked from
squeeze to wheezy, and 'testing' was pointed to new branch jessie,
recently forked from the unstable=sid one:

rmoen at borgia:~$ lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists
cd ok, cwd=/debian/dists                                 
lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists> ls
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            7 Feb 23 10:24 Debian6.0.7 -> squeeze
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            6 May 04 10:57 Debian7.0.0 -> wheezy
-rw-rw-r--    1 1176     1176          728 May 04 11:56 README
drwxrwsr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:25 experimental
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:25 jessie
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:24 jessie-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            7 May 04 10:47 oldstable -> squeeze
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           24 May 04 10:47 oldstable-proposed-updates -> squeeze-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           15 May 04 11:31 oldstable-updates -> squeeze-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           23 May 04 10:52 proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           12 Aug 04  2008 rc-buggy -> experimental
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:25 sid
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 04 12:32 squeeze
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176       548864 May 08 14:24 squeeze-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:24 squeeze-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            6 May 04 10:51 stable -> wheezy
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           16 May 05 07:59 stable-backports -> wheezy-backports
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           23 May 04 10:52 stable-proposed-updates -> wheezy-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           14 May 04 10:52 stable-updates -> wheezy-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            6 May 04 10:51 testing -> jessie
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176           23 May 04 10:53 testing-proposed-updates -> jessie-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx    1 1176     1176            3 Nov 10  2007 unstable -> sid
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 04 12:51 wheezy
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:24 wheezy-backports
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:24 wheezy-proposed-updates
drwxr-sr-x    5 1176     1176         4096 May 08 14:24 wheezy-updates
lftp ftp.debian.org:/debian/dists> quit
rmoen at borgia:~$

All this having been said, if you as a Debian user just Do the Right Thing and 
leave /etc/apt/sources.list[.d/*] pointed to your choice of 'stable', 'testing',
or 'unstable', then you can safely ignore -- largely -- the whole release process 
and forget which Toy Story character is which.