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Re: Show me the money Re: Donations to Debian



George Bonser writes:
> I think the idea is, you buy the 1.3 CDROM and pick up the revisions from
> the net.
> ...
> In this way, if a distribution goes defunct and is replaced, only the
> X.x-updates directory needs to be left around for people that might want
> to update a disk that is a couple of revs behind current.

Excellent idea.  Just add a script for the user to run to automatically
update their installed packages and you've got a really slick system.

However, it was my understanding that the change from x.y.z to x.y revision
z was purely cosmetic.
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