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by hsivonen 3041 days ago
Repurposing testing as such a distro (not calling it “testing”). Discontinuing stable (i.e. leaving the enterprise use case to Red Hat and SuSE) if the security team doesn’t have capacity to support both.
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That's a huge ask. My query was really about "rebranding" unstable.
When suggesting that Debian provide a security-supported release stream other than stable, the usual response is that the security team doesn’t have the capacity to support another one. That why I pointed out unprompted that I’d cut stable if there isn’t capacity for multiple security-supported channels. I realize it would be a big change for Debian.
Also: unstable can’t be the channel for casual users with rebranding, since there needs to be some smoke testing channel before the one for casual users.