Bastian Blank wrote: > I'm going to change the behavior for standard and installer bootstraps > to install complete required. Minimal and (build-)chroot installs or not > affected. Good. > > I have never seen the point of the mbr package, but whatever. ;-) > > Standard i386 mbr which jumps into the first partition, lilo and grub > are able to produce them also Well, sure, but what's the point of installing the deb by default? d-i installs a mbr when it makes the system bootable. I can think of very few scenarios where one would want to install a mbr after the fact, and none of them are common enough to install the mbr package by default. I suspect that mbr being in the base system is a holdover from debian 0.96 or so, when the first thing you might want to do after installing your debian system from floppies, and booting it from a floppy, was manually make the system bootable from hard drive.. > > Without gettext-base, base-config will not be properly localised. > > Why doesn't it depend against? base-config is optional, gettext-base is > standard. That's an oversight in base-config, I will add the dependency in the next upload. > > I have not checked the base system for documentation available only as > > info pages, but I suspect there is some, and so we should include a > > reader, as we do for man and html pages. > > w3m is standard. Sure, but my point is that if there is documentation in the base system in info format, the base system should include a reader. Or the documentation should be changed to a different format, or moved out of base. Anyway, looks like you included info below, so I can shut up .. > modconf standard, installer package is linux only I don't know why this would be necessary with d-i. -- see shy jo
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