On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 05:49:00PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > Following the split off of the manual from the installer itself, I have > restructured the packaging for the manual. > > The most important changes are: > - package is no longer Architecture: any, but Architecture: all; > - packages moved from section devel to section doc; > - packages have been renamed from debian-installer-manual to > installation-guide; > - the manual is no longer installed on debian mirrors as currently [1]; > - for Sarge-Etch upgrade I've added a Conflicts: debian-installer-manual. > > Consequences: > - the manual will be built for arch architectures before upload, resulting > in less problems with build dependencies on slower architectures; > - there will be separate packages installation-guide-<arch> that can be > installed on any architecture; thus a sysadmin can install the manual > for S/390 on his i386 laptop; > - existing bug reports will need to be moved to installation-guide. > > Consequences for CD building > As the manual will no longer be available on the mirrors, it will need to > be included in another way. As there will now be architecture specific > packages, the simplest was to include the manual seems to be to download > the respective package, 'dpkg -x <tempdir>' it and just copy the needed > files from there. > The only extra thing that would need to be done is to unzip the txt and > pdf versions. And maybe copyright and changelog could be deleted. > > The tree in the packages looks like: > ./usr/share/doc/installation-guide-<arch>/copyright > ./usr/share/doc/installation-guide-<arch>/changelog.gz > ./usr/share/doc/installation-guide-<arch>/example-preseed.txt.gz > ./usr/share/doc/installation-guide-<arch>/<language>/<html files> > > Comments welcome. > I would not like to delay a first upload too long though. Sorry for the late reply. But why the rename from debian-installer-manual into installation-guide? > > Cheers, > FJP GSt
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