Debian and code names

Posted Jul 3, 2019 19:51 UTC (Wed) by smadu2 (guest, #54943)
Parent article: Debian and code names

I always liked Ubuntu's naming and versioning.

Versions are "Year.Month" - so just looking at the version I know exactly when it was released and how long it's going to be maintained for.
Names always alphabetical so I have some sense of where in the whole suite of releases I am.

Debian and code names

Posted Jul 3, 2019 20:44 UTC (Wed) by admalledd (subscriber, #95347) [Link]

My only complaint with the Ubuntu convention is exactly as mentioned in the article, in that "I have to poke around in /etc/apt/<blah>, what was the codename for 19.04? Or the number version for Trusty?". So if there was some compatible aliasing for the repositories so I could just set them to the pure numbers that would be great.

Yes, plenty of easy to find mappings online/wiki but is it truly necessary at this point? Useful, yes for marketing and that saying a name is better than a number for development/community stuff too. For those of us who are downstream users/administrators with fleets of machines to think about (and not just my personal computers!) I feel that simple numeric (recommended to have a prefix as article mentions too though so you know 'debian' vs 'vendor') is much nicer to have available in common use throughout.