Good Job Debian: Compatibility back to 1999

[hartmans]

So, I needed a container of Debian Slink (2.1), released back in 1999. I expected this was going to be a long and involved process. Things didn't look good from the start:

root@mount-peerless:/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/sqlalchemy# debootstrap  slink /build/slink2 
http://archive.debian.org/debian                                                               
E: No such script: /usr/share/debootstrap/scripts/slink

Hmm, I thought I remembered slink support for debootstrap--not that slink used debootstrap by default--back when I was looking through the debootstrap sources years ago. Sure enough looking through the changelogs, slink support was dropped back in 2005.
Okay, well, this isn't going to work either, but I guess I could try debootstrapping sarge and from there go back to slink.
Except it worked fine.
Go us!

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[pvp2008.livejournal.com]

// Except it worked fine.

May be "Expect it worked fine." ? :)