Re: [sanvila@unex.es: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
On 11 Aug 2000, Philip Hands wrote:
> Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
>
> > 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").
>
> I don't really care about the symlinks that end up existing on the
> CDs, but if you are suggesting that we make trivial changes to the
> contents of the CDs at the last moment, just for tidiness's sake, then
> I strongly object.
>
> Almost every time there is a problem creating the images, it is the
> result of some trivial change. We were bitten by the frozen -->
> stable transition before, which is why all the symlinks exist today.
Are you saying "since we were bitten by the frozen -> stable transition,
we added frozen *and unstable*"?
What does unstable have to do with the frozen -> stable transition?
I can't believe that the level of superstition is so high among
technical people as we are supposed to be.
> [...]
> If we can make it so that the tools like APT all use the real distro
> code name, then we can look at fixing this at some point in the
> future, but I'm really not interested in doing things that might cause
> problems this close to release when there is nothing terribly bad
> about the status quo.
I have not talked about deadlines to fix this, I just limited myself
to report what I think is wrong.
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