Re: Bug#418688: d-i: Points to "Sarge" in sources.list

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Frans Pop wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 13:37, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > /cdrom/dists# ls -l
> > total 2
> > dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 2048 2007-04-07 13:29 etch
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root    4 2007-04-07 13:29 frozen -> etch
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root    4 2007-04-07 13:29 stable -> etch
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root    4 2007-04-07 13:29 testing -> etch
> > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root    4 2007-04-07 13:29 unstable -> etch
> >
> > Would you help me to convince debian-cd maintainers that those
> > symlinks should be removed? Last time I tried I was told they were
> > there "just in case", but I fail to see how we could need a "frozen"
> > symlink at all.
> 
> The installer _does_ still need the suite links even if we don't put them 
> in the sources.list anymore.

Hmm, *all* of them? Would "stable" not be enough? Would not we have a bug
somewhere if the installer failed when only the stable -> etch symlink
exists?

> I also don't know what frozen does there though, but I would guess that 
> was used during the Sarge release process.

sarge was already "testing" before it was released, not "frozen".