Talk:Debian version history

how many packages does Debian 9 have?
on the Release table, i see debian 9 with ~52,000 packages. but on the list of debian 9 packages from https://packages.debian.org/en/stretch/allpackages?format=txt.gz, i see 68,579 packages... so, where does the number 52,000 come from? Divinity76 (talk) 10:30, 4 July 2017 (UTC)
 * ~52k seems to be come from excluding virtual packages, I get 15751 results when I grep that file for "virtual package". So ~68k minus ~16k. --Inops (talk) 12:01, 16 February 2018 (UTC)

fixed schedule
The debian release system works on a fixed schedule based on their policy, rather than the calendar. AFAICT, it takes manual intervention from an ftpmaster to modify what's already fixed. I would've "been bold" and changed the text, but I'm not really sure that enough people truly know the distinction. I am not sure whether this should be changed, or left alone to provide evidence that we are deliberately neglecting our language and teaching others poorly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.203.232.78 (talk) 20:31, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

The only ordinary meaning of "fixed schedule" is a schedule that's fixed according to the calendar (or the clock). There is no practical difference for anyone reading this article between "fixed only according to Debian's internal logic" and "not fixed at all". (Debian's administrators presumably don't need this article to explain their own organization to them.) TooManyFingers (talk) 06:38, 27 November 2020 (UTC)

kernel version
https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html link 61 list the buster kernel version as 4.9 not 4.19. it lists 4.19 as the kernale version for debian version 11 (bullseye) 145.128.244.226 (talk) 15:50, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Move discussion in progress
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 * Not any more, there isn't - "The result of the move request was: pages not moved." Guy Harris (talk) 23:35, 7 May 2023 (UTC)