On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 12:23:09PM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > On 2004-01-13 12:35:58 +0000 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 10:22:04AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > >>So what were you calling a major PITA to our users, then? > >Lots of it. Dealing with a new archive. Dealing with a different > >BTS. etc. Especially since it's all con and no pro for those users. > > New archive is a one-time edit to sources.list, dealing with a > different BTS seems to require little user effort (Bugs header, > reportbug files), etc.
The question is: Would we want APT-frontends to cast out warnings like 'WARNING: You still have ftp.debian.org[...] non-free in your sources.list. Please update your entry to point to ftp.nonfree.org'? Would the maintainers even accept it? I believe we could go a long way to ease the transition for users by tuning our package tools (*apt*, reportbug come to mind) a bit. That would need some cooperation with the maintainers, though. Michael
