Bug#240697: acknowledged by developer (closing)

["C. Gatzemeier" <c.gatzemeier@tu-bs.de>]

Am Montag, 29. März 2004 17:08 schrieb Joey Hess:
> > --  Have prerelease installs default to point to the fixed name (sarge)
> >
> > --  At release time change installation default to point to stable as
> > usual, and issue a security patch to change explicit sarge systems to
> > point to stable.
>
> No, we can't afford to need to release an entire new version of the
> installer at release time. We must be able to freeze it and do serious
> testing of the actual version we release.

An entire new version of d-i is needed to change the default entries generated 
by the mirror chooser in the sources.list? That would also be the case 
changing from sarge to stable when releasing. If it is that intrusive this 
point might IMHO rather support having the default to be sarge already from 
earlier on.

I have the feeling the negative reasoning might have been a little too quick.
Thought merely exchanging a file that contains the default from sarge to 
stable, with a tiny securtiy update some time after the release for those 
that have installed sarge before the release, could be sufficient.

Kind Regards,
Christian