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Re: how do we test 'frozen' ?



On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:30:46PM +0900, sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu wrote:
> When the freeze actually hits, there will be a symbolic link made on the
> servers.  Just as we have links for "stable" and "unstable" now, a new
> link called "frozen" will appear.  If your sources.list file points
> to "unstable" then change that to "frozen".  If it points to "potato" you
> can just keep that as it is.  If it points to "stable" or "slink", well,
> then you'll have to upgrade...

And the unstable symlink will be made to point at a new directory structure
codenamed something new?

> If you do an apt-get update, then go into dselect, you should see all such
> packages listed under the heading obsolete/local.

Nifty, though one must do the update from within dselect, or so I have read.
:) All the same, it worked, and I notice that i have dhcp-beta and
dhcp-client-beta installed -- which dhcp client is preferred for the new
distribution?

> > I don't recall seeing an easy way to find all the bugs that I have submitted
> > to BTS
> 
> Hmm, the only way I know of to do this is to go here:
> 
> http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ix/full.html

Yes, it took forever to download, but it was worth it -- I had a few
outstanding bug reports, some that should have been merged, etc. Quite nice.

Thanks! ;)

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