Re: [980928.0004] Re: june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian
The reason that we shipped the LDR with Debian 1.3 instead of
waiting for 2.0 was that we were already a month past our estimated
release date and the Debian guys told us that 2.0 wouldn't be released
until the end of July. It had already been pushed back several times
and we had no promise that it would REALLY be available at the end of July.
Also, we had been asked not to distribute a beta version of debian 2.0.
The CD jackets had been printed and we did inform our distributors of
this distribution.
regards
InfoMagic tech support.
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998 jdassen@wi.leidenuniv.nl wrote:
> 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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