Ok I downloaded BO to see if I could contribute to the debian effort by testing the packages and reporting bugs, but to my surprise it is so BETA that I cannot even install it. I understand that debian is a volunteer effort and that what ppl do for debian is out of their own free will. Concerning the UNSTABLE release it is understood that there ARE bugs in the packages, but that does not mean that they should NOT, at least work! does it? I would imagine that if you maintain a package, you should at least test it yourself, and more importantly if its related to the main installation process (as with current problems with dinstall). Alot of people may not know enough about coding, script, debugging to go into the installation script and check/fix the problems that it has, but they may be able to test packages and report bugs; of course they can't do that if they can't get through the BASE installation :/
I am NOT flaming or judging the intentions of the maintainer of dinstall, but I am a little disapointed because the problem that I have with the script is not something that is non-relevant to the overall installation, it is the part of the script that extracts the BASE system from floppy disks (needless to say this is a VITAL part); because of a simple variable it does not access the floppy drive device and cannot install. Now this is not a BIG or complicated problem to fix, but what it DOES mean, is that the maintainer DID NOT test the script prior to packaging or else he would have found the problem. It is not a one time occurance; it happens every single time. Once again my apologies if I offend anyone, specially the maintainer of dinstall. If you find this e-mail offensive please ignore it and > /dev/null or if that doesn't satisfy you please email bomb me or something :) I love all ya ppl working on Debian! I think that it represents, to THE BEST degree, what LINUX is all about. PLEASE keep up the good work :-) Leon Castellanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
