On 20140322_181200, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Paul Condon wrote: > > > >Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and > >what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to > >images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved. > > > >But what is an explanation of my experience? I don't know, but I > >have a hypothesis (not a Theory). I do recall that there once was a > >cdimages.debian.org, not cdimage.debian.org up until about a year > >ago. The use of the plural in the name is a nice affectation of > >someone in Debian like the use of the plural in > >debian-user@lists.debian.org. It is one of the things I like about > >Debian, an desire for careful use of language. I have no idea when > >www.debian.org/CD/ first came into use, but I'm pretty sure it did not > >exist, or was not described in Potato, which is the release when I > >started using Debian. > > Looking at the history of the website in CVS, www.debian.org/CD/ came > into being with the following commit: > > revision 1.1 > date: 2002-01-02 19:57:54 +0000; author: joy; state: Exp; > moving not-strictly-cdimage stuff down to CD; adjusted index pages for the > move > > which *is* post-Potato (August 2000). I can also say with a fair > amount of certainty that cdimages.debian.org (plural) never existed - > I've been working on producing CDs for Debian since the Hamm days and > it's not been there at any point that I know of. > > -- > Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com > Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/
Thanks for clarifying this situation with actual facts and for contributing to making Debian during the whole 14yrs that I've been a user. -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140323182831.ga14...@big.lan.gnu
