On Mon, 23 Oct 95 14:31:05 -0500, "Debian Linux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Look I know this issue has ramifications for mirror sites, CD makers, and > developers. But, if you want to attract new people to Debian, you need to > have "A Product" that we can come and get, not a constantly changing > collection of packages.
Having some means of identifying a "stable" release is of _prime_ consideration for myself. My computer club's BBS contains a "snapshot" of Debian. As the club's maintainer of Debian, I want to be assured that when someone downloads a copy of Debian from the BBS, that person has a 99.999% success rate at the installation of Debian from scratch. It does not have to be bleeding edge technology. I expect a stable, upgradable Linux, not the Slackware follies! > > I appologize if I sound a little cranked up but I am.... :-} No apologies necessary, Dale. As you can see, there are other with the same point of view 8-) I propose that the "Packages" listing be frozen as the official list of a release. Thus it would be the necessary "snapshot" showing which packages are guaranteed to work together as a release. I also propose that a second "Packages-update" listing be formulated and maintained on all Debian sites. This text file would show the "bleeding edge" packages as well as the "bug-fix" packages. The "Packages-update" list would be constantly updated as packages are updated. It would also show "new" packages which have been added to the Debian release. -- ************************************** * Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK * * UUCP: dragon!westgac3!tomk * * INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * **************************************
