Re: boot-floppy short-term status
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 08:36:34PM -0700, David Whedon wrote:
> Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:00:24PM -0400 wrote:
> > On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 06:43:46PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > >
> > > I am preparing boot-floppies 2.3.4 for release. This version should
> > > be nominally installable, or at least, get beyond the blocker bugs in
> > > 2.3.3, such as busybox issues causing failed download of base.
> >
> > I notice in the dist selection that int he code, it strictly disallows
> > using sid/unstable. It pops up a box about how it is not suggested to
> > use it, but then ignores the user upon answering "they don't care". Can
> > we remove this? Often testing is more broken than unstable. I can modify
> > it so it still pops up with the warning, but allows the user to
> > continue.
>
> I actually completely took sid out this past weekend, have you done an update?
> We've already been getting lots of bug reports from people trying to install who
> probably wanted to be using potato. I had visions of people installing sid and
> making their systems completely unbootable or corrupting their drives. I see what
> you mean about sid being better than testing sometimes, though. With a strong
> warning, as long as we make sure it gets translated.
Thanks. Also, I would suggest showing the current state of things as
"woody" _was_ shown as "stable" and potato was shown as "archived". Can
this be updated aswell?
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