On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:34:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Limitations in the archive scripts mean that we cannot upload a source > package that produces only a byhand tarball and no debs. So the > debian-installer package has to produce some kind of .deb package, and > a .deb containing all of its documentation seemed like a reasonable > thing to do. Oh, understood, I've been reviewing the rules file for debian-installer. One question: the rules file for the debian-installer just uses binary-arch, shouldn't binary-indep be used to generate the debian-installer-manual package instead? > If you look at the boot-floppies, it provided install-doc in the same > way, which included amoung other things, the same manual. I didn't > realise I'd independantly hit upon the same solution to this problem > until I looked at it today. Yes, comparing both rules files I know see that it's possible. > > > A major rewrite of chapter 2 is planned after the initrd's are final (are > > > they yet?). > > > > Is there going to be a last upload of initrd? If so translators could use > > it to update/review their translations. > > The last upload of the initrds was planned for over 3 weeks ago. We're > so far in minus time now that I cannot give any sensible schedule. The > last upload of the initrd will happen as soon as people stop finding > bugs in the initrd contents that we cannot possibly release with. Now, a new question: is it possible do reupload new debian-installer-documentation without breaking the previous images? (if I understand it correctly, debian-installer builds both the documentation and the images of the CD-ROM, net, HD, etc. installatons) If that's not possible, maybe the documentation package should be independent from debian-installer. Would it actually make sense to have a documentation-only source package that would generate the debian-installer-deb and the byhand stuff? (just like other documentation packages, like debian-guide, quick-reference, maint-guide, etc, are handled) (I'm thinking of new uploads of debian-installer after sarge has been released...) Regards Javier
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