Re: bumping the version number
On Sat, 9 Dec 1995, Bill Mitchell wrote:
>
> It seems like this will cause the mirrors carrying 1.0 to download
> the whole tree again. If we're going to do that, perhaps we should
> have the debian-development (or whatever) be the directory tree and
> debian-1.<whatever> be a symlink to it. That way, the next bump of
> the version number wouldn't cause massive downloading (or so I would
> think).
>
just FYI that has already happened. All mirror sites have probably done
the equivelant of an rm -rf debian-1.0 already since we moved the tree.
This makes ftp.debian.org the only site for the 1.0 release now.
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