[plug] Debian Sarge - was Re: [plug] next distro?

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> 
> Craig Ringer wrote:
> 

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> 
> > Of course, YYMV, and many seem to consider Debian Sarge a viable 
> > alternative.
> 
> (Your Y....... May Vary?)
> 

Plurry acronyms!

> 

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> If you do want to install Sarge, it's probably easiest to use the new
> beta debian installer:  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
> The beta4 installer works, but there have been a few nice improvements
> in sid_d-i (the daily builds) so you might want to try that.  (It's
> the "if you'd like something newer" link on the page above.)
> 
> Cameron.
> 
> 

From:

> Subject: Debian Weekly News - July 6th, 2004
> 

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> State of Sarge Debian-Installer: Broken. Joey Hess [30]looked at
> sarge's debian-installer and concluded that it is broken. He sees many
> instances of changes that break dependencies. He thought it likely
> that sid's d-i now has less bugs than sarge's and that sid is
> diverging too far from sarge for it to be easy to keep maintaining
> sarge. He may throw away the plan of incremental copying of binary
> packages into sarge, and revert to taking a snapshot, hoping that it
> mostly works and copying everything to sarge in one go for a release.
> 
>  30. http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/07/msg00053.html
> 
> 

>From the above, I get the impression that the Debian installer for 
Sarge, is broken.

Perhaps, I have misinterpreted that?

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Bret Busby
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