Re: cdimage.debian.org how-to? what gives? [solved]
On 20140322_181200, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> Paul Condon wrote:
> >
> >Hello everyone, I'm OP and I'm still adamant about what I did, and
> >what I saw. The URL, https://www.debian.org/CD/ does lead one to
> >images of CDs as stated by John H. So, my initial problem is solved.
> >
> >But what is an explanation of my experience? I don't know, but I
> >have a hypothesis (not a Theory). I do recall that there once was a
> >cdimages.debian.org, not cdimage.debian.org up until about a year
> >ago. The use of the plural in the name is a nice affectation of
> >someone in Debian like the use of the plural in
> >debian-user@lists.debian.org. It is one of the things I like about
> >Debian, an desire for careful use of language. I have no idea when
> >www.debian.org/CD/ first came into use, but I'm pretty sure it did not
> >exist, or was not described in Potato, which is the release when I
> >started using Debian.
>
> Looking at the history of the website in CVS, www.debian.org/CD/ came
> into being with the following commit:
>
> revision 1.1
> date: 2002-01-02 19:57:54 +0000; author: joy; state: Exp;
> moving not-strictly-cdimage stuff down to CD; adjusted index pages for the move
>
> which *is* post-Potato (August 2000). I can also say with a fair
> amount of certainty that cdimages.debian.org (plural) never existed -
> I've been working on producing CDs for Debian since the Hamm days and
> it's not been there at any point that I know of.
>
> --
> Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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Thanks for clarifying this situation with actual facts and for
contributing to making Debian during the whole 14yrs that I've
been a user.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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