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Re: snapshot.debian.net



On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 01:17:51PM -0700, Tom wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 09:11:52AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 11:27:13PM -0700, tb.nospam@comcast.net wrote:
> > > Does http://snapshot.debian.net really keep EVERY version of EVERY
> > > package in unstable?
> > 
> > See the statement on its front page. It's true.
> 
> Thanks.  I'd read it, but was confused by the first sentence (IMHO it's 
> overly complex and opaque).

The author's Japanese. You could send textual improvements ...

> I guess when it says "All Packages" it means "all .DEBs," which is
> indeed all "versions."
> 
> A semantic question: does "package" always mean "a particular .DEB", 
> i.e. one particular version?  If so, what is the unambigious term for 
> the series of versions?

A (binary) package is a .deb, but "package" can also refer to all the
instances of the package through time. I'd say something like "history
of the package" if I wanted to be unambiguous.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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