[tor-dev] the consequences of deprecating debian alpha repos with every new major branch

Peter Palfrader weasel at torproject.org
Tue Jul 3 06:51:38 UTC 2018


On Sun, 01 Jul 2018, Iain Learmonth wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 30/06/18 15:42, nusenu wrote:
> > but maybe someone else would be willing to invoke a
> > "ln" commands everytime a new new alpha repo is born.
> > 
> > tor-alpha-jessie -> tor-experimental-0.3.4.x-jessie
> 
> As an alternative strategy, symbolic links for old alpha repositories
> point to the current stable repository.

apt will complain if the Suite/Codename in the Release file doesn't
match what it expects.  symlinks don't change anything.

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