Re: "buzz" created

[Mike Coleman <coleman@chez-gnu.cstp.umkc.edu>]

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   From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
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   I don't know if we should create a 1.1-updates directory or if we should
   simply point people at the moving-target version. Some discussion might
   help.

The moving-target option looks good except for one (big) worry--the
possibility that a significant package with a significant bug will be present
at the moment that some significant outfit presses a cdrom of Debian.  The
Debian gets a rep as being buggy, etc.

In an alternative scenario, multiple cdrom vendors press multiple snapshots,
meaning that a single coherent errata statement (a la Redhat) is not possible.

I think we should go with the frozen, or nearly frozen snapshot (where "nearly
frozen" would mean only serious bugfixes).  This concept seems to work well
for kernel releases, and I think it would work well here, too.

--Mike