Re: "buzz" created
You (Mike Coleman) wrote:
> From: bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)
>
> 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.
I like Guy Maors suggestion (that was mailed to debian-private) the best.
It keeps the mirror size down, and a release is a release. "buzz" must
be frozen. Otherwise you never know what version of buzz is on a CD.
buzz-fixes or buzz-upgrades cannot be frozen but that is OK. We do need
a ChangeLog in the buzz-upgrades directory though so that you can check if
a CD has all the nessecary upgrades on it.
Mike.
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