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Debian fixed a bug after 22 years (micronews.debian.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Looks like it was fixed in 2004, and there were no messages any more recently. Looks like it was just never closed, not unfixed, unless I'm missing something.

Edit: the bug tracker it was fixed in 2.01, which came out 2004-07-23. But the changelog says #186085 was fixed in 2.00, strangely. And the current version, 3.73, was released 2023-05-25.

After more sleuthing, I hunted down the micronews mailing list where they discussed this: https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2025/07/msg00003.html

I guess in 2004 they made the criteria for inclusion on the task list stricter, so what's being fixed now is that they're changing the debian installer to include selections for tasks/blends like debian med? I don't see where that's indicated though.