Re: Installation guide link possibly incorrect
Hi,
Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Holger Wansing <linux@wansing-online.de> (2018-06-08):
> > We had the same situation in 2016 with jessie/stretch manual.
> > I have already adapted the lessoften cron script in
> > https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/cron/commit/f02a61c6d43c3b2f141ad64a837c33fbd0f56fb8
> >
> > Today I found the relevant mailinglist entries, here:
> > https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2016/03/msg00200.html
> > where I read that some more action is needed.
> >
> > Laura: could you help us again with this?
> > In above mailinglist entry you have posted the commands needed back
> > in 2016...
>
> I'm wondering whether we shouldn't be trying to look at specific
> versions of installation-guide based on the target suite, rather than
> hoping for the best with ls -t|head -1.
>
> For stretch, it can be obtained with:
> | kibi@wolkenstein:~$ rmadison installation-guide -s stretch | awk '{print $3}'
> | 20170614
>
> For buster, there's currently no version available in testing, so we
> could try to use whatever is in testing, and fall back to unstable if
> there's no such version?
>
> (If we implement checking several suites with a fallback, we could even
> check stretch-proposed-updates in addition to stretch, which would let
> us merge things in advance when a point release is being prepared.)
>
>
> What do you (-boot & -www) think?
Similar solutions have already been proposed, but sadly noone implemented
some.
For me, that sounds like a very good way.
Holger
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