On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 06:28:13PM +0200, Alf Gaida wrote:
On 25.06.19 17:48, Michael Stone wrote:
oldoldstable has the value of demonstrating some of what's wrong
with the current system
Can you please explain, i don't get it - maybe i to new at this. For
me file like /etc/apt/sources.lists.d/debian.list:
wow, that slows down every package operation on the system as you
download or search 6+ versions of everything.
and so on - i take the older releases only as reference.
I just do something like look at https://packages.debian.org/ssh
Or, if I'm really curious about versions, then something like
http://snapshot.debian.org/package/openssh/
If you've got some kind of weird requirement to have everything local,
I'd still rather see something like "debian8" in the output than
"oldoldstable"--a name that changes over time and is therefore relative
to both a reference system and a specific system at the time that entry
was created. If I want a specific version of a package, it will only be
in "oldoldstable" up until "oldoldstable" is something entirely
different. I'm still not understanding a use case where that's an
advantage.
