Ubuntu 6.10 in the news

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:42:49PM +0930, Karl Goetz wrote:
> 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'

Starting with the Breezy->Dapper upgrade, this is no longer true.  The
update manager handles this transparently.

> 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 fairly trivial to provide symlinks in the archive, but it simplifies
life somewhat to have a single canonical name for each release for internal
purposes.

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 - mdz