Hi everyone, I bought the latest release of InfoMagic's famous 6-CD-ROM set, in order to upgrade my system from 1.1.4 to 1.2.10. I found that several files were missing. Among them is the xlib6_3.2-1a.1.deb package which is vital to be able to run X-applications. At least this file was present on ftp.debian.org. Is this InfoMagic's fault, or is it possible that the missing files were not in the archive when the CD-mirror was taken? I wrote a script to check all the Packages.gz files to see if they were present on the CD. This resulted in 33 files that were not on the CD, and 92 files that were in other places than in the Packages.gz files (essentially missing links). I think this kind of omissions will be giving Debian a bad name. The distribution on the latest InfoMagic CD-ROM set won't run X-windows, and give loads of errors with dselect. Is it being checked that the archives are consistent with the Packages files? Should I complain with InfoMagic? Would it be a good idea to store the missing files somewhere on the debian archives, with a clear message to people who bought this CD-ROM set? I encountered similar problems with the previous CD-ROM set, which I used at work, but not with the CD-ROM set that contained 1.1.4, the first Debian distribution I installed. Any other comments?
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