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and subject line Bug#638218: fixed in debian-history 2.16
has caused the Debian Bug report #638218,
regarding Omission in the History page: master.d.o location
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Package: debian-history
Version: 2.15
Hi,
Thanks Michael for the notice. As it refers to very early Debian history, let's
assign this to the package, maintained by Bbdale and Osamu.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:00:20PM +0200, Michael Neuffer wrote:
> Hi Folks
>
> The following document is missing some facts:
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/project-history/ch-releases.en.html
>
> "Debian 0.93R6 (November 1995): dselect appears. This was the last
> Debian release using the a.out binary format; there were about 60
> developers. The first master.debian.org server was built by Bdale
> Garbee and hosted by HP in parallel with the 0.93R6 release. The
> deployment of an explicit master server on which Debian developers
> would construct each release led directly to the formation of the
> Debian mirror network, and indirectly to the development of many of
> the policies and procedures used to manage the project today."
>
>
> Between End of 1995 and the end of 1996 or early 1997 the Debian
> master server was hosted at i-Connect.Net on our own hardware
> (located in Beaverton, Oregon). i-Connet.Net also provided various
> additional services for Debian during that time.
>
> For example, essentially what is now the whole New Maintainer
> Process was run by Shimon Shapiro and me (the founders of
> i-Connect.Net).
>
> We pitched in when none of the Universities or large companies could
> or wanted to invest the resources necessary to keep the project
> running.
>
> During this period the mirror network was build up and was feed from master.
>
> Only then the centralized services running on master were beeing
> distributed and moved away to be hosted at various other places.
Best regards.
--
Simon Paillard
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Source: debian-history
Source-Version: 2.16
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
debian-history, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
debian-history_2.16.dsc
to main/d/debian-history/debian-history_2.16.dsc
debian-history_2.16.tar.gz
to main/d/debian-history/debian-history_2.16.tar.gz
debian-history_2.16_all.deb
to main/d/debian-history/debian-history_2.16_all.deb
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bdale Garbee <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-history package)
(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 09:46:30 -0700
Source: debian-history
Binary: debian-history
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.16
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Bdale Garbee <[email protected]>
Description:
debian-history - Short History of the Debian Project
Closes: 611017 638218 653734
Changes:
debian-history (2.16) unstable; urgency=low
.
[ Bdale Garbee ]
* fix typo, closes: #653734
* new German translation, closes: #611017
* add a paragraph honoring i-Connect.Net's early contributions, including
hosting master.debian.org for a while after it left HP, closes: #638218
.
[ Javier Fernandez-Sanguino ]
* Make visible the short introduction of Squeeze (was commented out and
nobody remembered to uncomment it in the previous upload)
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