Re: bumping the version number
>> It seems like this will cause the mirrors carrying 1.0 to download
>> the whole tree again. If we're going to do that, perhaps we should
>> have the debian-development (or whatever) be the directory tree and
>> debian-1.<whatever> be a symlink to it. That way, the next bump of
>> the version number wouldn't cause massive downloading (or so I would
>> think).
> just FYI that has already happened. All mirror sites have probably done
> the equivelant of an rm -rf debian-1.0 already since we moved the tree.
Indeed - my mirror deleted the tree - fortunately I have a backup.
:)
alvar
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