Re: alpha.gnu.org/../debian
* Grant Bowman writes:
> Sorry, but it was not a mistake to actually tell people what was the
> latest and greatest location when it moved. I believe it was a mistake
> to move the latest usable version from
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz to
> debian-staging or debian-libio since anyone new to the project was
> immediately and unnecessarily confused. This confusion was created for
> well-intending new users. It's likely that if they are new users and
> trying to follow the documentation to the letter that a bad impression
> of the project was formed that will not quickly be changed. We had this
> question coming up all the time on IRC for those users who had more of a
> clue, but I suspect there's a higher ratio of unasked question:asked
> question than we could possibly know about.
I can't see how this was a mistake, debian-libio and debian-staging
were never supposed to be used by "normal" users, anyone using them
knew that this was a temporary solution until the switch was
finished. And as the switch now is finished everything went back to
its old location.
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Alfred M. Szmidt
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