The Debian home page (http://www.debian.org/) notes the announcement of
the "Upcoming Release of Debian GNU/Linux 4.0," and the page linked by
that note says "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date
for the next release of its distribution which will be named Debian
GNU/Linux 4.0 alias 'etch'." However, elsewhere on the Debian home page
I see: "The latest stable release of Debian is 3.1." Why doesn't it say
4.0?

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Bob Kline
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On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 05:10:47PM -0500, Bob Kline wrote:

Because the statement "The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date
for the next release of its distribution" was made without the consent of
the release team. and misrepresents the realities of the release process.
3.1 is still the latest stable release of Debian.

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The statement
"The Debian project confirms December 2006 as the date for the next
release of its distribution which will be named Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
alias 'etch'."
is wrong, and indeed Debian 4.0 wasn't released in December 2006. The
reason this statement reached debian-announce is insufficient review of
the content allowed there.