On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Philip Charles wrote: > On Sat, 25 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Jim Westveer wrote: > > > > > On 23-Mar-2000 J.A. Bezemer wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > > > > > > <snip> > > > > > > > We consider anything to be official ONLY if it is mentioned in the > > > > ChangeLog. > > > > Everything else has been (very!) unreliable in the past. > > > > > > > > NOTE: Has the new w3-el-e20 already been installed?? (The > > > > "old"==current? > > > > version was/is breaking CD creation.) > > > > > > NOPE, the updated w3-el-e20 was moved into 'slink-proposed-updates' so > > > cd-creation is still broken. It needed to be moved into the main archive! > > > > > > Actually there are a number of files in slink-proposed-updates . > > > > Actually we could call it at least 2.1r8 by now. The symlink for 2.1r5 > > appeared on my mirror Mar 5 and checking modify times for directories > > along with actual file timestamps shows that slink has been changed at > > least 3 times since then. The wording on my CD labels is 'Based on Debian > > Stable Version 2.1r5' followed by the image creation date. > > > > I have no idea what rules are being used for release engineering. They > > must be radically different from the ones I learned. I would be glad to > > share this wisdom with anyone who really gives a .... about such things. > > > > In the meantime I will continue to do my best at generating CD images that > > work correctly regardless of version (mis)numbering. It would be different > > if I was getting complaints about installability and such. It might be > > possible that the w3-el-e20 problem exists on my product for those who > > choose to install that package. If that is the case installing from the > > stable ftp archive would also be a problem until it is updated. > > > Anyone who tries to use any of the preselected systems will run into > problems with their installation with 2.1r5(6,7,8)
So this means that we need to move a package from proposed updates to slink? I can do that on my mirror before generating slink images. Give me a few more workarounds so I can change my labels to 'Loosely based on Debian stable slink 2.1r?' :) +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
