← Back to team overview

elementary-dev-community team mailing list archive

Re: Remove April 7th iso from unstable/ on SourceForge

 

They can't install any packages AFAIK, "broken dependencies" I believe.


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Haha, good point, I thought about that after I hit Send.
>
> What errors are they having besides initrd.img not found? Cannot upgrade
> from luna to precise? apt-get update 404s?
>
> I'm deleting it now that I'm near my computer.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:17 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Still, can't we please remove it? We're getting far too many people on
>> #elementary who have installed and asking for help.
>>
>> Also, the iso doesn't even boot for most iso burning apps, only on
>> Unetbootin, so it doesn't really pass the Does It Boot test either.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Cody Garver <cody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> It passed our standard test for unstable ISOs, "Does it boot?".
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 7:43 AM, David Gomes <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hey there,
>>>>
>>>> We're getting many users on #elementary complaining about broken
>>>> package manager and PPAs on the April 7th iso. I'm not sure who uploaded a
>>>> broken iso, but please test isos before uploading them because we're
>>>> basically fooling users. Sure, they know it's unstable before downloading
>>>> it, but still, we should try to be as stable as possible.
>>>>
>>>> tl;dr; Somebody who controls the Sourceforge page please remove latest
>>>> uploaded iso.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> David "Munchor" Gomes
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community
>>>> Post to     : elementary-dev-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~elementary-dev-community
>>>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Cody Garver
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Cody Garver
>

Follow ups

References