Re: Ask the isosceles triangle people. This is the TRIANGLE-user mailing list

[davidson@freevolt.org]

On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, Mario Castelán Castro wrote:

> On 25/08/17 23:39, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Mario Castelán Castro wrote to debian-user[1]:
> > > Ask the tails people. This is the DEBIAN-user mailing list.
> >
> > If this was intended to discourage such questions here, I think it is
> > not a fair objection.
>
> An isosceles triangle is a triangle, but Tails is not Debian.
>
> Your comparison fails because Tails is a distribution of its own not
> part of Debian in any way, just as Ubuntu or many or the other
> derivatives of Debian.
>
> Whatever you find in Tails, is there because of a Tails developer
> put it there.

I am perpelexed by this last statement, since the uri in the error
message reported by the Tails user[1]

 Failed - 0B - InRelease - tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/ debian stretch InRelease

points to what the release notes suggest is a debian repository[2].

1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/08/msg01420.html
2. https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecation-of-ftp-apt-mirrors