John Goerzen wrote: > On the other hand, it worked already. So have you ever ported boot-floppies to a new major kernel version? I have (partially). Not fun. > We seem to decide we have to > rewrite the installer from scratch for each new release, and it seems to > slow us down each time. We've rewritten the debian installer exactly once; I'm having a hard time figuring out how you drew a line from that data point. > This isn't to say that the d-i folks aren't doing a great job. They > are. Just to say that we have something that works now, and using it > for sarge would make sarge no worse than what we have now. Contrary to what Matthew Garret said, the installer has not been considered a sarge release blocker for at least the past two months. The Debian installer is currently in a more releasable state than Debian. Suggesting that we somehow insta-port the boot-floppies to sarge (and the 2.6 kernel) at this point is beyond absurd. -- see shy jo
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