Re: Error while running apt-get update
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:56:10AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 12:56:14AM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > 3) Even if the bug has been filed 8192 times and fixed for the last
> > month, everyone running stable is still going to run into this
> > problem. Everyone.
>
> Not everyone. As I said somewhere else, I don't believe it affects
> people who haven't decided it's a good idea to put multiple
> distributions in /etc/apt/sources.list. (Of course, if sarge grows to
> two or three times its current size by the time it releases, I guess it
> could affect all upgraders ...)
You're correct; I spoke poorly. What I meant was even if a patched
apt package is uploaded to the archive yesterday, it doesn't help
people using stable.
Regards,
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