dpkg error on apt-get upgrade

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:43:13PM -0400, Dave Mason wrote:
> When I said eventually stable, I assumed via testing.  I thought that lenny was once unstable, then it was testing, then it was released as stable.  sid is the release that is currently equivalent to unstable; when squeeze becomes stable, will not lenny become oldstable, sid become testing, and a copy of sid be made under another name (which you referenced as already having been decided upon) and that will be the new unstable?

Nope won't ever happen.  potato was the last unstable release to turn
into a stable release.  It was too impractical.

> No, but won't sid/unstable eventually become sid/testing and sid/testing eventually become sid/stable and be a release?

No sid is always unstable.  unstable never converts to testing.
Individial packages migrate from unstable to testing.

sid/unstable is where new development happens.  It is not where a future
release is happening.  testing is where a future release is being worked
on by moving in the packages that look good from unstable.

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Len Sorensen
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