Reorganize Debian tree (was: Parsing package filenames)

I was thinking about the parsing problem and I had a new idea, which I think would be the best solution. What I think is needed is a reorganization of the Debian tree so that under the root tree for the distribution we have: (root-tree)///files(binaries and sources) For example: /debian-1.1/base

Re: Parsing package filenames (was: Re: New ftp method for dselect)

On Tue, 19 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: [...] > What programs are we talking about being compatible with? Not dselect or > dpkg, which don't care about the filename. I'd hazard that dchanges would > be easy to fix. Dftp would ask for the feature, as would the dselect > FTP method. > > Am I mi

Re: 1.0 on Infomagic CD

On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Bruce Perens wrote: [...] > We can't put stuff like this where just anybody can download it any > longer. Especially, we can't do that and call it "1.0". This isn't > entirely Infomagic's fault, in my opinion. I suggested some time ago to call the directories: release-0.93