Re: Bug#68477 acknowledged by developer (apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

reopen 68477
reassign 68477 debian-cd
thanks

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 19:39:09 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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> cc: Raphael Hertzog <rhertzog@hrnet.fr>, 
>     APT Development Team <deity@lists.debian.org>, 
>     Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>, 68477-done@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Bug#68477: apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.]
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> 
> This is not a bug.
> 
> apt-cdrom deliberately chooses [unstable,frozen,stable] above all other
> duplicated names on the CD. This is to indicate to the user the status of
> the disc. The CD label should (and does generally) contain the release
> version.

Ok, if it is not a bug that apt-cdrom chooses a status name, then the
only way to fix this is to have *only* the right status name on CD
(namely, "stable"), so I'm reassgigning this back to debian-cd.

If this may not be fixed in potato it will have to be fixed in woody,
I don't care, but having wrong and not required symlinks in the dists
directory will do nothing but confusing users and generate questions
about this in the user lists.

Thanks.