> > boot-floppy, cdrom, install and installation were all added to accomplish > > the same thing -- catch more bugs against the installation procedure as they > > came in, without relying on unknown-package. They are orthogonal to whatever > > we call the installation system. I can understand that.. > However, they appear to be confusing the installation system developers, > which seems counterproductive. The confusing part is that we would like to have one or two places to look for bugs, not five or six. Currently users seem to randomly sometimes file bug reports against "install" or "installation" instead of the docmented "installation-reports" and "debian-installer". Some of these bugs are for d-i, and some are for boot floppies, and the bug reports often don't even say what version of debian they are for (because installation bug reports catch our most inexpert users, at their freshest). End result is the bugs end up in these places and moulder for months before anyone happens to notice them. > Are there any other suggestions? (I'd be open to hacking up something > like automatic package name redirects in debbugs; there's an outstanding > request for that anyway.) That would solve most of it from my perspective. We'd still get boot-floppies bugs, but I hope people won't bother with that after much longer. :-) -- see shy jo
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