Bug#411889: update-manager and meta-release

[Robert Millan]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 06:42:48PM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > I'm trying to enable support for detection of new releases, with the
> > intention that this can make it into etch (so that it'll be useful with
> > lenny).  This corresponds to the -c option in update-manager.
> > 
> > UpdateManager/MetaRelease.py refers to:
> > 
> >      METARELEASE_URI = "http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/meta-release"
> 
> This should probably become a configuration option somehow. Or if you
> tell me the url used in debian I could change it so that it
> dynamically swiches based on the used distro (figured out via
> lsb_release). 

Unfortunately we don't know yet.  Perhaps
http://ftp.debian.org/meta-release{,-development} would be a good
one ?

FTP masters, are you ok with having this in Debian?  And if so, is the
proposed URL ok for you ?
 
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