Re: Bug#68477 acknowledged by developer (apt-cdrom confused by symlinks.)

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Santiago Vila wrote:
> 
> > > apt-cdrom deliberately chooses [unstable,frozen,stable] above all other
> > > duplicated names on the CD. This is to indicate to the user the status of
> > > the disc. The CD label should (and does generally) contain the release
> > > version.
> > 
> > Ok, if it is not a bug that apt-cdrom chooses a status name, then the
> > only way to fix this is to have *only* the right status name on CD
> > (namely, "stable"), so I'm reassgigning this back to debian-cd.
> 
> It doesn't *need* to be fixed, it is not a problem,

We have always considered things that may be improved as bugs.

For example, something that produces annoyance is a bug. Downgrade to
wishlist if you like, but while these symlinks are there without being
really required, people *will* ask about their reason to exist.

> stop worrying about it.

[ To tell you the truth, I'm more worried about how much superstitious
we are (for example, adding an unstable symlink "because we got bitten
by the frozen->stable transition") than about wrong symlinks ].

Thanks.