Re: Mistake on http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/errata.en.html

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Matt Kraai wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 08:10:04PM +0100, Holger Mickler wrote:
>> there is a mistake on the above mentioned html page (at least for the 
>> english and german ones).
>>
>> Under "Point releases" it reads:
>>
>> ---
>> If you use APT to update your packages, you can install the proposed 
>> updates by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list:
>>
>>   # proposed additions for a 5.0 point release
>>   deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian proposed-updates main contrib non-free
>> ---
>>
>> The entry for the debian archive is wrong, it has to be
>>
>> deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny-proposed-updates main contrib non-free
>>
>> (lenny- was missing)
> 
> Thanks for reporting this.  I've changed the source code and the
> website should be updated within a few hours.

Note that nothing was wrong. lenny-proposed-updates is (currently) a
symlink to proposed-updates. Changing it this way means we have to
update it every release which was not needed before...

Cheers

Luk