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Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed



[Colin Watson]
> Not breaking debootstrap is also important; every time a package in
> the base system grows a new dependency, it breaks old d-i images,
> making consistent testing difficult.

Which is a good argument for starting to use cdebootstrap, which track
dependencies automatically.

> You can certainly try to argue your case with the debootstrap
> maintainer, but we have to draw a line somewhere or else we'll never
> release, and we can't fix everything.

I know. :/



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