As sarge is done and the unofficial amd64 release is just waiting on the fat lady, it's time to start talking in detail about plans for debian-cd. There's a plan for a debian-cd hack session the day before Debconf starts (Saturday 9th July), and I'm sure we'll have some more ideas then. But for now my immediate plans are: * Add the JTE patch into cdrtools properly, to build a mkisofs-jte package that we can depend on. I didn't want to do this earlier, but several weeks of testing has convinced me that the JTE patch is stable enough to package. I'm thinking of having a mkisofs-jte package for now, then merging it into the main mkisofs package later. Sound reasonable? * Merge the JTE support into mainline debian-cd. Again, it worked fine for the sarge CDs and we no longer have to care about breaking woody builds. * Call for everybody to merge all their outstanding changes in. * Once the above are done, freeze debian-cd in CVS and move to a more powerful scm (svn/arch/whatever - I'm open to suggestions/debate here). After that, it'll be easier to start work on the more intrusive changes I'd like to make: * Fix task generation; remove the generated task lists from the module altogether and make the build generate them each time. I know Joey's been wanting this for a while, and it's sensible * Rip out and rewrite the CD-filling code. Rather than estimate at the beginning of the run what will fit on each CD (which can lead to iterative builds to get sizes right), check on sizes as files are copied in at the end of the process. * (Related) Stop using apt-ftparchive. This is now one of the most time-consuming steps in a CD build, and is unnecessary. Instead, it should be possible to parse the Packages and Sources files that we have to start with. Then, generate Packages and Sources files for the CDs as we copy the relevant files into the temporary tree. * Full support for multi-arch CDs. As we copy .debs into the temporary trees, copy the files in for all the arches specified. It's even possible to make CDs and DVDs boot on several arches in parallel (cool hack! :-) ). Also, have an option for building CDs including the source (in the same way), to make it easier for people to distribute small sets of CDs and _know_ that they're covered for source liability. * Allow (limited) builds without a local mirror. Netinst and business card images should be possible that way - they don't need a full set of packages to be present. There will be more to come, but this is my list for now. Anyone else? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com You raise the blade, you make the change... You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane...
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