Control: clone -1 -2 Control: retitle -2 release-notes: wheezy's apt-cdrom doesn't insist on /cdrom as mount point Control: tags -2 = jessie Control: close -1 On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:31:15 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: > Package: release-notes > Severity: normal > Tags: patch > > In upgrading.dbk, Section 4.3.3 "Adding APT source from CD-ROM or DVD" > has: > > 1) references to /cdrom throughout > > ...but apparently that's not obsolete quite yet; it's only Wheezy's > apt-cdrom that's FHS-compliant and uses /media/cdrom (see #611569). > Do we know if users will need any special advice for handling the > switch? > Cloning for jessie. I don't know how the transition works, having never used apt-cdrom. > 2) references to /dev/hdc > > These days that would be /dev/sr0 or /dev/scd0 or something, but > presumably we should be talking about the /dev/cdrom symlink, right? > I've changed it to /dev/scd0 earlier today, before seeing this report. > 3) no references to Blu-ray Discs > > We offer images for DVD and (via jigdo only) BD, but this section > talks almost exclusively about "CDs" (and "the CD-ROM drive"), with > only one mention of DVDs and none of Blu-ray. Should we perhaps make > the cover-term "optical media" in the title, and phrase things so we > can fit in a reference to "CDs (or DVDs or Blu-ray Discs)" the first > time it comes up in the text? > > Or perhaps we could treat "CDs" as the cover-term, so it's "from CDs" > in the title, and put an expanded version in the first place where > it's mentioned in the text - "optical media (that is, CDs, DVDs, or > Blu-ray Discs)". > > My patch goes for /dev/cdrom, and "optical media" in the title. > Applied the "optical media" bit, thanks. Cheers, Julien
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature