On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 8:04 PM Michael Stone wrote: > Having "stable" in sources.list is broken, because one day stuff goes > from working to not working, which requires manual intervention, at > which point someone could have just changed the name. Having codenames > in sources.list is broken, because even people who have been developers > for two decades can't remember which release is which without looking it > up. (Which is harder than it should be; maybe we should have had > /etc/debian-releasenames or somesuch from the beginning. lsb_release -a > is helpful when available but doesn't have context, and many users don't > know it exists.)
Personally, I can remember the names and their order much better than which version goes with which codename or suite :) -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
