Re: naming of debian distributions

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

>> If you installed it using the official woody CDs it's very unlikely
>> that you
>> have an unstable source in you apt list. But to answer your question:
> 
> I don't believe this is correct.
> 
> I recall there was (is?) a bug in the official distribution which caused
> woody CDs to report themselves as unstable.
> 
> The packages on the CD were really from the stable tree, and the system
> installed from the CDs was stable (Woody).

Yes, this is a known bug in both Woody r0 and r1. There are bug reports
about this problem (the first one tells you how to correct this
manually):

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=157014
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=178331

best regards
        Andreas Janssen

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