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Bug#335640: nobootloader: Should avoid making specific references to "linux"



On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 08:17:19AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Package: nobootloader
> Severity: normal
> 
> The nobootloader templates specifically reference booting "linux" while D-I
> could be used to boot something else, now or in the future (Hurd,
> kFreeBSd...).

Why not, no idea how those boot though. Maybe we can even do some kernel
probing (uname output), and the templates be provided it or something.

> Moreover, the spelling of Linux here is not consistent with other places in
> Debian in general and the common use of a capital.
> 
> I hereby recommend removing this reference which seems doable.
> 
> Thanks to Jens Seidel for pointing this out. I did not immediately fixed it
> because I feel that other advices might be needed.

Patches (or fixes direct in SVN) welcome :)

Friendly,

Sven Luther




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