Re: FTP site organization

[Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>]

> > > 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])
> 
> Might I just remind people that the Deity team is building a dselect
> replacement which will be able to handle source lists?  See:
> <URL:http://www.verisim.com/~behanw/deity/deity-ui_0.10.html#src>
> 
> When this happens, there will be no need for the main distribution and
> the non-us distribution even to be on the same FTP server for Deity to
> handle them together neatly.  The same should be true for any other
> "side distributions".

As one of the members of the deity team, I do know this.  However, the
general cleanup of the site can only do good, especially since Deity is
not yet done and some people will still use dselect or dpkg, the re-org
still has merit.

                                          Brian
                                 ( bcwhite@verisim.com )

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