On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 02:20:22PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > 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.
The main problem being the non-existance of ftp.non-free.org, and the doubt that such a thing will ever happen in a satisfactory way. Friendly, Sven Luther
