Bug#734080: Symlink should point to current netinst.iso
Control: tag -1 wontfix
On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 04:13:27PM +0100, Dennis Hoppe wrote:
>Package: debian-cd
>Version: 3.1.13
>Severity: whishlist
>
>Hello,
>
>i am working a lot with Packer [1] to build images for VirtualBox or
>VMware Fusion, which will be used with Vagrant [2].
>
>It would be great, if you could create a symlink which points to the
>current netinst.iso. For example:
>
>http://cdimage.debian.org/mirror/cdimage/release/current/amd64/iso-cd/netinst.iso
>-> debian-7.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>
>Otherwise we have to update our Vagrant configs, after each point release
>of Debian.
Hi Dennis,
Sorry, I really don't want to do this. I understand that it will make
your life easier, but it's also likely to make user support much
harder. The existing setup means that people reporting bugs at least
can give us a filename to describe what they're using. With such a
symlink, we're likely to see even more people reporting bugs that we
won't be able to help with... :-/
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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We don't need no thought control.
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