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Bug#401233: marked as done (debian-installer-manual: how to get the guide source should be clarified)

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Package: debian-installer-manual
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

It's not clear to me how to get the source for the Debian Installation
Guide.
At the Debian Documentation Project page[1], there's a Subversion
command line that will probably checkout the latest development
version (right?).  This seems OK.

But the published version for the stable release[2] does not tell
any method to get source for that version.
I think it should made easy to get the source for the published version
of the guide, ideally with a link to a good (gzipped or bzipped2) tar
archive of the complete source.
I tried to browse through the WebSVN interface, but I quickly got lost...
:-(

After some failed tries, I figured out that I could get the source package
of debian-installer-manual (sarge version), but it's not really clear to
me whether this is the same exact version as the one "published for the
stable release"[2]... Is it the same?

In any case, I think that a good link in the webpage[2] would really
make things easier (especially for users that lack enough familiarity
with Debian).

Can we have this fixed for the next stable release (etch), please?

Thanks for your attention.


[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#install-sarge
[2] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual

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On Saturday 02 December 2006 00:59, Francesco Poli wrote:
> It's not clear to me how to get the source for the Debian Installation
> Guide.

For the Sarge version: apt-get source debian-installer
For the Etch version: apt-get source installation-guide

In both cases you could have found out by looking at the 
packages.debian.org website as that lists which source package each 
normal package belongs to.
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/debian-installer-manual
http://packages.debian.org/testing/doc/installation-guide-i386

The source for an uploaded version of the installation guide is also 
always "tagged" in the d-i SVN repository. For the Sarge version the 
manual was part of uploads of debian-installer itself.

Cheers,
FJP

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