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Re: RE : Re: Linux Magazin Germany, affecting Debian's image?!



On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:20:59AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> On 10717 March 1977, Radu-Cristian FOTESCU wrote:

> > 2. It clearly contains packages not on the official update list. AFAIK,
> > backports like FF1.5 and X.org are not _official_ for Sarge.

> Yes, where is the problem?

> Before I go on answering some small points in your mail - you do
> remember that Debian is actually free for anyone? Including freedom of
> changing it?

> >> Thats a DVD for a event, that happened to also get a magazine
> >> attached. 
> > I'm not very sure "it happened to". It's for sale now, labeled "sarge".

> Yes, they attached it to the Magazine. And gave us a good number of
> dvds for free.

When posting on such questions using your debian.org email address, please
try to be clear about what "us" you're referring to.  I have never heard
that LinuxMagazin gave these DVDs to Debian.

> I dont know where the problem is with it having "Debian Sarge" on it
> (together with some notes about the included stuff, the LinuxMagazin
> logo and the year). The DVD doesnt say anywhere its official (if you
> install from it all parts that refer to it mention it either as
> "Debian Sarge Cebit 2006 Special Edition DVD." (Release File) or as
> "Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 "Sarge" - Unofficial Cebit 2006 i386/powerpc/amd64 Binary-1 (20060207)(jj/as)"
> (.disk/info, that what gets into sources.list).

Having looked at the CD label art that was used in the magazine edition, I
am concerned that it's not made very obvious for the uninitiated user that
this is an unofficial build of sarge.  I don't think that it is /clearly/
labelled as unofficial, as we require on our website; it may be labelled
"unofficial" in the .disk info, but that's not "clear" for the average user.

I don't think it's too much to ask that these concerns be relayed to
LinuxMagazin for future images they choose to publish.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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