On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 04:41:18PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Bruce Momjian [2013-02-19 8:44 -0500]:
> > I have been running Ubuntu for 5 years and didn't know the code name of
> > my release until I had to track a bug report a few months ago.
>
> Believe it or not, that's actually great to hear :) The code names are
> mostly some fun thing for developers to avoid breaking our tongues too
> much when we talk about it. But they have never been meant to be
> exposed in stable releases. All announcements, web sites, etc. always
> say "Ubuntu 12.04", not "Precise Pangolin".
>
> (I guess that also has something to do with seriousness and marketing,
> etc. :-)
Specificially, the patch I needed was ported to quetzal, and I had to
wait for it to be ported to precise. I saw the names on the "Pending
Ubuntu stable release updates" page:
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html
and in discussions about the patch.
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