Re: FTP site organization
> > ftp/pub/debian/
> > stable -> dists/stable
> > frozen -> dists/frozen
> > unstable -> dists/unstable
> > dists/stable (symlink to current stable distribution)
> > dists/frozen (symlink to current frozen distribution)
> > dists/unstable (symlink to current development distribution)
> > dists/<dist>/ (actual location of distribution files)
> > main/ (main distribution files)
> > non-free/ (non free distribution files [1])
> > non-US/ (non US distribution files [2])
>
> Isn't this basically what we have now? (except for the non-US stuff)
>
> Of course, the locations for bo shouldn't be changed.
It is much that way logically, yes. I just want to make it "policy".
> > - All "Packages" files will give the "Filename:" field relative start with
> > "dists/...".
>
> Shouldn't the Filename: be relative to the Packages file?
Unfortunately, dselect does not work this way. It needs to know the location
from a common directory.
> > [1] note that contrib is to merged into non-free since it has been pointed
> > out that it is largely redundant
>
> I don't think that was the general consensus. I think 'contrib' is for
> DFSG stuff that depends on non-free stuff. The policy manual is pretty
> clear now.
Is it? When I followed the discussion, the consensus seemed to be going
the other way. I'll look into it.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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