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Re: Installation Instructions link



On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:09:12PM -0500, James A. Treacy wrote:
> What is the proper mailing list for this be discussed? This discussion
> should be moved there.

Well, this is debian-www :)

> I'd like to see each of the links at the top of the page be to a
> separate page:
>     * General Information
>     * Release Notes
>     * New Installations
>     * Errata
>     * Reporting Problems
>     * Credits

I did this for releases/woody/ already. I can do it for releases/potato/,
too. I'll have to change the links to releases/stable/#new-inst for woody
anyway, so why not start now.

> One minor nit about this page is that it is not clear what someone who
> is upgrading should go.

Yeah, unless they read the start of pretty much every section up to the
right one, about release notes. This would be fixed with the above change,
too.

> Also, there are two ways to handle having multiple arches: have each
> section have links to the pages for each arch (as is currently done) or
> to have the user select once what their arch is. I know it would be a
> big change but feel that the second solution would make life easier when
> installing. On the other hand, it would probably make the life of those
> writing those pages much harder.

There's one other problem -- the ports pages differ among each other, as
some have specific user-level data on them, and some don't.

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