I am not subscribed to debian-boot, so please CC me if replying there. On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 20:08, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 07:52:40PM +0100, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > "John H. Robinson, IV" <jhriv@ucsd.edu> writes: > > > i think the greatest mistake was the _assumption_ that b-f is built > > > against testing, and thus any upload to unstable would not affect b-f, > > > until the package moves into testing that is. > > Is it really an assumption? > sadly, yes. again, looking in the cvs repository, we can find the > canonical answer: > http://cvs.debian.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/~checkout~/boot-floppies/common.sh?content-type=text/plain > lines 23-25: > # what distro we use for base -- should be "woody" or "sid" > # we use "sid" for now until woody base is frozen > export SUITE="sid" Just out of curiosity and ignorance: why? Why is boot-floppies built against ``sid'' and not ``woody''? -- Lars Bahner, http://lars.bahner.com/ Nihil est sine ratione cur potius sit, quam non sit.
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