Re: Debian-installer, older hardware, boot loaders, miboot & amiboot & ..

[Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 11:55:03AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jeremie Koenig wrote:
> > The plan was to request a sarge-ignore tag on the "d-i build-depends on
> > miboot, which is in contrib", and try to find a better solution for next
> > releases.
> 
> This is the first I've heard of this. Has the sarge-ignore status of the
> GFDL docs really created such a slippery slope? I doubt it.

I've posted my intentions here and noone seemed to object.

Also, it was about having a very small, non-essential part of d-i
temporarily build-depend on contrib stuff, not keeping presumably
non-free stuff in main as in the GFDL case.

-- 
Jeremie Koenig <sprite@sprite.fr.eu.org>