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Re: The new installer



On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 06:14:38PM +0000, James Troup wrote:
> Domenico Andreoli <cavok@filibusta.crema.unimi.it> writes:
> 
> > a user might see a closed bug report but could not be unable to
> > download the fixing package with the usual methods (dselect, apt,
> > etc..).
> 
> This was already the case; even if you used auric as your mirror (but,
> of course, people don't) it could be several hours between the bug
> being closed and the package being available.  The only difference now
you are saying that a just installed package doesn't figure immediatly
in the Packages ?

> is that the potential time lag has been lengthened.  The trade off (as
i can expect some lag if i'm using a mirror, but the official source
should be coherent, shouldn't it?

anyway i can live with this, i wanted only to point it out once i noted
i was not alone :)

thanks

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