Andreas Barth wrote: > ==begin draft== > Any CD/DVD image needs to (I'll just write CD now for lazyness): > - CD-lintian doesn't report errors (as soon as we have it); > - CD uses the official d-i (of course, preseeding is ok), or if otherwise > agreed by the d-i RMs (which are currently Joey Hess and Frans Pop); > - There is an extended README, including: > - responsible persons for the creation of this CD, > - selection criteria for packages on the CD, > - what additional packages are on the CD, how to report bugs for them, > and where updates are, > - place of the errata for this CD; > - All "official" packages are the same as on ftp.d.o, additional packages > can be in other directories; > - All packages are DFSG-free; > - All software that ends up on the installed system comes from .deb packages > - Images available to be put on cdimages.d.o (actual uploading is done > via Steve or someone else - we just require the images to be available > for upload; it is ok if upload needs to be delayed by a short time); > - Prepare a news item and send it to debian-publicity; > - All source needs to be available, and you need to conform to the licenses > on the CD, especially to GPL. One problem with these guidelines is that I could create a CD that followed each of them to the letter, and yet used preseeding to download and auto-install windows (or install a free subset of ubuntu from debs on the CD). > As these are guidelines, the final decision is shared between Steve McIntyre > and the stable release managers. For approval requests, please contact them > via debian-release@lists.debian.org. Obviously this adds enough human element to avoid a CD that installs windows, but what then is the cutoff point? Would a CD that auto-installs debian-edu be able to be called an "Debian CD"? What about a CD that only changes the default desktop to kde? I feel it will be confusing if there are different "Debian" CDs that behave in different ways. If the CD has different behavior it should be called an "Debian-Edu CD" or an "Debian KDE CD" or what have you. (Note that I've left out the word "official" since apparently that was a mistake in the subject.) -- see shy jo
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