ftp.us.debian.org bug
sballard@rainbow:~$ ftp ftp.us.debian.org
Connected to ike.egr.msu.edu.
220 ike.egr.msu.edu FTP server (Version wu-2.6.0(1) Tue Nov 30 19:12:53
CET 1999) ready.
Name (ftp.us.debian.org:sballard): anonymous
331 Guest login ok, send your complete e-mail address as password.
Password:
230-Welcome, archive user anonymous@... !
230-
230-The local time is: Tue Jan 18 13:05:49 2000
... blah blah blah ...
Remote system type is UNIX.
Using binary mode to transfer files.
ftp> cd debian/dists
250-Please read the file README
250- it was last modified on Sat Mar 20 12:54:12 1999 - 304 days ago
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for /bin/ls.
total 24
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 6 Dec 15 08:05 Debian2.1r4 ->
stable
-rw-rw-r-- 1 0 0 485 Mar 20 1999 README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 6 Jan 17 14:24 frozen -> potato
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 0 1024 Jan 17 23:15 potato
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 22 Apr 7 1999 proposed-updates
-> slink-proposed-updates
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 0 1024 Jul 23 1998 sid
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 0 1024 Dec 14 17:25 slink
drwxrwxr-x 2 0 0 18432 Jan 18 09:39
slink-proposed-updates
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 5 Apr 7 1999 stable -> slink
lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 6 Apr 7 1999 unstable ->
potato
drwxrwxr-x 5 0 0 1024 Jan 16 12:31 woody
^^^^^^
226 Transfer complete.
ftp>
Surely it should be unstable -> woody?
This greatly confuses apt, because although my sources.list line lists
"woody" explicitly, the Packages file in the woody directory refers to
"unstable", which points back to potato, which doesn't contain the woody
files. That might be another bug - it sounds to me like it would be
better for the Packages file to point to woody by name.
Anyone know who I should contact about this? There's not exactly a
"package" to file a bug against.
Stuart.
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