Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
On Mon, Sep 28, 1998 at 07:55:38AM -0400, tko@westgac3.dragon.com wrote:
[Infomagic labelled "Debian 2.0" containing 1.3.1]
> Hummmmm. Wonder what they had in mind? I thought I purchased the 2.0
> release, but it is clearly an error.
It is. This is the umpteenth mistake wrt Debian Infomagic have made with
their CD set. I cannot currently in good conscience recommend their CD set
to anyone interested in Debian .
They've put unstable versions on CD (ever wonder why there was never a
Debian 1.0?), put broken packages and broken hierarchies on CD, etc. We
started producing official ISO 9660 CD images specifically so that these
types of problem would no longer occur, but IIRC, they chose to ignore the
official CD images.
To Infomagic: your track record wrt Debian is very bad, and frankly, I think
that you're doing a disservice to the Linux community in general, and the
Debian community specifically by distributing broken Debian CDs.
Unfortunately, in many places outside the US, yours is the only CD set that
is easily available. As such, I'd hate to see you drop Debian. Please use up
to date official Debian CD images, or, if for some reason that's not an
option for you, ask people on the debian-cd@lists.debian.org list to help
you in producing working up to date, properly working Debian CDs.
Ray
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