Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: Unidentified subject!"): > Matthew Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I don't know if this is a good news or bad news. > > but I think there is a big misunderstanding about debian-0.93 and debian-1.0 > > I really forsee the need to do this > > > > debian-0.93 > > release -> debian-0.93 > > development/debian-1.0 > > NOTICE: NO LINK > > development/trial-packages (or some such instead of inside private/project)
The problem with this is that moving directories is a pain for the mirror sites. We had this already when we released 0.93; we don't want to have to physically move 1.0 when we release it. > Perhaps this is part of the problem: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2982 Oct 27 02:55 README.DEBIAN > drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 17 04:36 debian-0.93 > lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 11 Nov 17 04:55 debian-0.93R6 -> debian-0.93 > drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 17 04:36 debian-1.0 > lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 10 Nov 17 04:55 development -> debian-1.0 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > DEBIAN.README predates the 0.93 vs. 1.0 split, and there's no info in > there about what the difference between 0.93 and 1.0 is or which is > appropriate to download for what purpose. The only hint that 1.0 is > bleeding edge is the fact that there's a symlink named "development" > pointing to it. I've added/edited various README's and .message files. Take a look at what you see now; I think it's pretty hard to miss ... Ian. -chiark:~> ncftp debian NcFTP 2.1.0 (July 15, 1995), by Mike Gleason, NCEMRSoft. Current local directory is /u/ian/download. Trying to connect to ftp.debian.org... ********************************************************************** WELCOME TO C E N T R A L M I C H I G A N U N I V E R S I T Y DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE ********************************************************************** Hello, user at chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk. You are currently user 13 out of a possible 150 in your class. If you experience problems with this archive or if you have comments or questions about this archive, please contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anonymous users: Please use a real e-mail address as your password, not "root", "Netscape", "WWWuser", etc., and please keep the number of connections to one. If this becomes a problem, we will deny access to your machine, or even to your entire domain. The official Debian GNU/Linux archive is located on this machine in the directory /debian. NOTE: This site allows the .tar.gz convention, but please note that 99% of the files on this site are already compressed. Therefore, .gz should not be used, as it creates unnecessary load on the server. Guest login ok, access restrictions apply. debian:/> cd /debian The current version of Debian GNU/Linux is 0.93 Release 6, in the debian-0.93 directory here. For more information about Debian GNU/Linux, please visit the World Wide Web page http://www.debian.org/. Please read the file README.DEBIAN it was last modified on Thu Oct 26 22:55:35 1995 - 23 days ago Please read the file README.USE-0.93 it was last modified on Sat Nov 18 11:23:29 1995 - 0 days ago Please read the file README.mirrors it was last modified on Thu Oct 26 22:55:35 1995 - 23 days ago debian:/debian> dir total 1188 -rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 201 Nov 18 16:26 .message -rw-r--r-- 1 0 debian 0 Nov 9 04:34 .notar -rw-r--r-- 1 3969 debian 140303 Nov 18 04:54 Packages-Master -rw-r--r-- 1 3969 debian 39553 Nov 18 04:56 Packages-Master.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2982 Oct 27 02:55 README.DEBIAN -rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 210 Nov 18 16:23 README.USE-0.93 -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 2438 Oct 27 02:55 README.mirrors drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Oct 3 21:29 contrib drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:34 debian-0.93 lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 11 Nov 18 16:27 debian-0.93R6 -> debian-0.93 drwxrwxr-x 6 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 16:35 debian-1.0 drwxrwxr-x 4 10003 debian 512 Jun 24 02:15 debian-bugs lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 10 Nov 18 16:27 development -> debian-1.0 drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Nov 9 05:46 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Oct 27 03:52 info drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Sep 26 17:51 kernel -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 384614 Nov 18 04:34 ls-laR drwxrwxr-x 5 10000 debian 512 Oct 3 21:29 non-free drwxrwx--x 3 0 daemon 512 Nov 9 04:34 private drwxrwxr-x 5 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 project lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 13 Nov 18 16:27 stable -> debian-0.93R6 drwxrwxr-x 2 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 16:09 tools debian:/debian> cd debian-1.0 *** WARNING! THIS IS UNRELEASED ALPHA SOFTWARE. *** The currently released version of Debian GNU/Linux is 0.93. You can find Debian 0.93 in ../debian-0.93. Please read the file README.DO-NOT-USE it was last modified on Sat Nov 18 11:23:29 1995 - 0 days ago debian:/debian/debian-1.0> dir total 3690 -rw-rw-r-- 1 3969 debian 156 Nov 18 16:31 .message -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 1712340 Nov 18 04:34 Contents -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 debian 142840 Nov 18 04:34 Contents.gz lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 15 Nov 18 16:35 Packages -> binary/Packages lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 18 Nov 18 16:35 README.DO-NOT-USE -> ../README.USE-0.93 drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:56 binary drwxrwxr-x 3 10000 debian 512 Nov 9 23:53 disks drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Nov 18 04:56 ms-dos drwxrwxr-x 22 10000 debian 512 Sep 28 15:26 source lrwxrwxr-x 1 10000 debian 9 Nov 18 16:35 stable -> ../stable debian:/debian/debian-1.0> page README.DO-NOT-USE Debian 1.0 is not released; the 1.0 development tree is here but you should probably not use it. The currently-released version of Debian is 0.93 - follow the link "stable" or use the "debian-0.93" directory. debian:/debian/debian-1.0>