Re: specifying the oldstable and oldoldstable releases in the list in /releases/index
Laura Arjona Reina <[email protected]>
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El 26/11/17 a las 03:39, Paul Wise escribió: > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 12:15 AM, Laura Arjona Reina wrote: > >> I've just noticed that in the list of releases at the end of www.debian.org/releases/index.*.html, we just mark testing, stable, and all the rest as "obsolete stable release". >> I think it would be useful to specify oldstable and the one(s) that are under long term support. > > It might be a good idea to consult the release team about this. > I'll file a bug against www.debian.org so this does not get lost, and ping the Release Team in two weeks or so (I guess they are now busy with the next release points). >> Attached you can find a diff as a proposal. > > Personally I think I prefer to use the English terms, but maybe > putting the tech jargon in quotes next to the codenames would be best? > >> I'm not sure about the term "oldoldstable" (is "old <q>oldstable</q>" better? I've seen the former in the Debian wiki, that's why I wrote it like that). > > All of <q>stable</q>, <q>oldstable</q> and <q>oldoldstable</q> are > suite names that are technical jargon that users usually won't > interact with outside of the sources.list file. > > I wonder if a table would be a better way to structure the list, we > could take some inspiration from Ubuntu or other distros and list the > dates. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases > Thanks, I will include these suggestions in the bug report too. Cheers