Re: [Cooker] Some questions about Mandriva

[Adam Williamson <awilliamson@mandriva.com>]

On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 13:37 +0200, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Adam Williamson a écrit :
> > each of these sections is split into four *repositories*:
> > 
> > release
> > updates
> > testing
> > backports
> I don't remember having ever seen this term with this meaning. And I
> found it especially unhappy: in the world of versioning systems, the
> repository is the global archive, not a subpart of it. I'd rather use
> the term of packages repositories to distinguish between PLF, Mandriva,
> SoS, etc...

Then you should have raised that objection over half a year ago when I
posted my draft nomenclature policy for comments. :)
-- 
adamw