On Sun, 29 May 2011 12:44:19 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I've written some scripts to download the census wiki pages, extract > the sources.list snippets from them and run aptitude update against > them. I sent some mails out to ask people to fix things and got a few > updates. I had to do some of the fixing myself, but as of today, I get > no errors :D Guilty as charged, thanks for letting us know :) > Some things I noticed along the way: > Most derivatives don't have suite aliases like Debian's oldstable -> > lenny, stable -> squeeze, testing -> wheezy, sid -> unstable. I wonder > how Debian can promote the addition of these amongst our derivatives, > any thoughts? Having these would mean zero effort would be needed on > Debian's side when a derivative makes a new release. They're not hard to create, but if a derivative doesn't think in terms of oldstable/stable/testing/unstable then only some of the symlinks would exist. (For example in gNewSense I'll be providing oldstable/stable symlinks, and maybe an unstable link. we won't be doing testing any time soon though). > Some of them missed out suites or architectures. Hm, iirc thats us again. I should check that out. > Some derivatives do not have browsable repositories, which are nice > to have IMO. Do you mean packages.debian.org style? thanks, kk -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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