Ubuntu 6.10 in the news

[Derek Broughton]

Karl Goetz wrote:

> Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 16:25 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
>>> It would be nice if people would realise that these are only code names,
>>> and the real name of the distribution is the number.

As they are in Debian - but for the life of me I can't remember which name
relates to which version.  Names are much easier to remember.

>> Sadly I think it's one of those things that will never cease no matter
>> how many times we repeat it over and over, because people just don't
>> seem to understand when you speak to them, somehow.

Not "understand" but "care".  I know what dapper is, you know what dapper
is, and for the average user "6.06" just doesn't matter (especially since
it isn't 6.06 _yet_).
 
> when the user has to enter "breezy/dapper" in your sources list before
> upgrading you cant expect them to think 'but this is really called
> Ubuntu 5.10/6.06LTS'
> I'v wondered about having the option for each (breezy/ubuntu510) as
> options in apt repos, but i havent ever looked at how much work would go
> into that.

It's just a matter of using symlinks, as Debian does - I wish we had
something like (but not identical to) stable/testing so that a person would
_never_ have to change sources.list.
-- 
derek