Re: "buzz" created
On Thu, 13 Jun 1996, Mike Coleman wrote:
> 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 agree with everything except the "nearly frozen" idea, exactly for
the reason you suggest - multiple snapshots are possible.
Read the mail I posted to debian-private a few minutes ago (or perhaps
you were one of the people on the cc list). I outlined a method where
there would be 3 distributions -
1. a static `release' directory
2. a dynamic `release-updates' directory. This would contain important updates
only.
3. a dynamic `development' directory containing a mix of files and slinks to
release.
All CD pressings have an identical static release directory. All users
should upgrade all the packages in release-updates. They can upgrade
to development if they're adventurous.
Guy
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