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Re: slowing down point releases

On Thu, 31 Jul 1997, Thomas Koenig wrote:

> Dale Scheetz wrote:
> 
> >Redhat provides this market time by only delivering one release. All
> >additional changes to packages is put in the Updates directory for FTP
> >download. As a result the Original release CDs can be sold during the
> >total time of the X.Y release, with the end user only needing to get on
> >the net to download those packages in updates that need to be upgraded.
> 
> This is a good policy.  I think we could tell the CD manufacturer
> that there's no need to worry overmuch about dot upgrades.  Let them
> print a flyer pointing at Debian's site for upgrades, if people need them.
> 
> The current version of Debian is 1.3.  Anything after the '3' is an
> upgrade, which people should not worry about overmuch :-)

Then we have to not add stuff like X to a point release.  It'll take a
while to download it over a 14.4 or 28.8 modem.  Or if we need to add X,
we need to produce a new CD.  We should say something like.  "Once
stable-updates is 50-60 meg, we make a new CD, and bump the point release
up 1" And we'd also include a pointer to
http://www.debian.org/stable/errata.html

How does this sound?

Shaya


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