Re: Fwd: meaning of potato in package description
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015, at 08:44, Fred Maranhão wrote:
> deixa como potato mesmo. é o nome de uma versão do debian lá dos anos
> 2000.
Eu traduziria para "Debian 2.2". Aliás, o ideal seria consertar isso no
inglês, também: Debian Potato já está no limiar do esquecimento.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
> Date: 2015-06-01 16:18 GMT-03:00
> Subject: Re: meaning of potato in package description
> To: Fred Maranhão <fred.maranhao@gmail.com>
> Cc: Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
>
>
> Hi Fred
>
> Potato was the last Debian release without the pool structure that the
> Debian ftp archive is using today. It had the structure that
> debarchiver is using. When the package was released (I think it first
> appeared in the potato release) it was obvious what it was. I guess
> after 13 years or so, it is no longer so obvious. :-)
>
> // Ola
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Fred Maranhão <fred.maranhao@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Lundqvist,
> >
> > can you explain the meaning of the word 'potato' in the package
> > description of debarchiver?
> >
> > "This tool can create a potato like file structure that dselect,
> > apt-get and similar tools can use for easier installation."
> >
> > Fred
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