Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, J.A. Bezemer wrote:
> As said before, sources.list should have "potato", but that's apt-cdrom's
> problem, and not debian-cd's. If I understand you correctly, you agree that
> there should be at least one symlink; I'm saying that apt-cdrom should not use
> those symlinks at all. (And if it uses symlinks like it does now, it doesn't
> matter which one it uses -- they'll all be "broken" at some point in time from
> your point of view. Which means that we can put any number of symlinks we want
> on the CDs without making things worse.)
Well, I have just realized there is one important thing I forgot to clarify:
I submitted this bug against debian-cd because it is the package which
is used to generate the official Debian CD images, which is where I
saw the wrong frozen and unstable symlinks. If it were another virtual
package for the CD images proper, I would have used it in the Package
field (feel free to reasign if there is one).
So, I'm going to write my bug report in another way:
Official Debian CDs for potato should not have any symlink other than "stable".
If this is not possible with the current debian-cd package, then this will
have to be fixed in the debian-cd package first.
On the other hand, if this is possible with the current debian-cd
package (for example by using additional command line arguments or
variables), then those additional arguments or options should be
actually used by the people creating the CD images for Debian (and
this is regardless of whatever debian-cd defaults to for the "user who
does not know what is doing", I think we all agree that the persons
who create the official CDs for Debian should be in the set of people
who "know what they are doing").
Thanks.
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