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Re: labelling for Non-US CDs



On Mon, 14 May 2001, Steve McIntyre wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 01:56:57PM -0600, Matt Kraai wrote:
> >Howdy,
> >
> >The label scheme noted in the cdimage FAQ is
> >
> >Debian GNU/{Linux|Hurd} <version> [<revision>]
> >Official {<architecture> Binary|Source}-<number>
> >
> >I think there should be an extra field at the end [Non-US], since
> >you can have official Non-US CDs.  That is, the scheme should be
> >changed to
> >
> >Debian GNU/{Linux|Hurd} <version> [<revision>]
> >Official {<architecture> Binary|Source}-<number> [Non-US]
> >
> >Is this acceptable?
> 
> Yes, that sounds reasonable, but only when we drop support for
> dpkg-multicd users and assume everyone is using apt. It's currently
> deprecated, so we could happily drop it from woody CDs I think.

Dropping dpkg-multicd support: agreed.

But Matt was talking about the proposed way to write a label on the physical
CD (cover, tray card etc.) which doesn't really have anything to do with the
.disk/info on the CD (except that it will get confusing if the difference is
too big). 


Regards,
  Anne Bezemer



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