Re: New Markets
On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
> Like I said, there should be releases every 3 months or so, with the
> "latest" available in an "unstable" directory for FTP users only. I am
> pretty sure we can avoid the dire scenarios you paint.
One thing that bothers me a bit is that when unstable/ gets renamed to
debian-1.1/ on ftp.debian.org, then all the mirror sites are going to
spend hours fetching files that they already have.
Wouldn't it make more sense to call the directory debian-1.1/ right from
the start, and make unstable a symbolic link to it?
Then we'd have something like:
debian-0.93r6/
debian-1.1/
stable -> debian-0.93r6
unstable -> debian-1.1/
When 1.1 is out of beta testing, a new debian-1.2/ directory is created
for the next alpha/beta series, and the symbolic links are changed so
that:
stable -> debian-1.1/
unstable -> debian-1.2/
Craig
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