Re: When is Sarge going stable already?

[Hal Vaughan <hal@thresholddigital.com>]

On Sunday 27 March 2005 05:35 pm, Doug wrote:
> do a bit of homework please...
>
> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=debian+sarge+release
>
> the 1st google search link takes you directly to debians' release page.
> in particular, look at things like "Release-critical-bugs".  it just
> *might* give you an indication

Remember that Google has servers throughout the world, even different servers 
in the same country.  What you get as a result may or may not be the same as 
what he gets.  I've even tried it with people in the city where I live.  I've 
gotten different results for a search as a friend across the river got.  And 
it can further complicate things depending on the order of the words you 
enter.  For example, you entered, in order, Debian, Sarge, and release.  I 
have had times where I needed an answer, and didn't get it, but simply 
re-arranged my search terms and got different results, and finally got a page 
with the answer I wanted.

So, while it is likely he would get something useful with a search like this, 
there is a fair chance that if he did a search, he might get pages other than 
what you get.

And, a useful trick, would be to restrict the search to debian.org, where it 
is more likely to yield a useful answer.

Hal