>> It seems like this will cause the mirrors carrying 1.0 to download >> the whole tree again. If we're going to do that, perhaps we should >> have the debian-development (or whatever) be the directory tree and >> debian-1.<whatever> be a symlink to it. That way, the next bump of >> the version number wouldn't cause massive downloading (or so I would >> think).
> just FYI that has already happened. All mirror sites have probably done > the equivelant of an rm -rf debian-1.0 already since we moved the tree. Indeed - my mirror deleted the tree - fortunately I have a backup. :) alvar -- Alvar Bray Meiko Limited Phone: +44 1454 616171 650 Aztec West Fax: +44 1454 618188 Bristol BS12 4SD E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] England WWW: http://www.meiko.com Via: Debian GNU/Linux from home.