Quoting Holger Levsen (2022-09-01 18:40:30) > On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 06:02:38PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > > A large part of installations now run inside virtual machines and have no > > use for device firmware. > > yes. > > > Having a free-software-only installer is an easy > > way for image builders to ensure that anything they build will be > > redistributable. > > no. if you build images, you don't use d-i but fai, debuerreotype, mmedebstrap > debootstrap or your-custom-script-being-used-since-1997 or something else, but > hardly anyone uses d-i for this use-case. I suspect that the above response provides a clue to why some find it important to label an install image as "official" and others find that irrelevant: I am the developer of one such bootstrapping tool - boxer - but I consider my tool stable only when it can mimick the installation as done by debian-installer. My tool is far from that goal, but that goal nevertheless exists for my view on what is a canonical Debian system: A system spawned using official Debian install process. When you use debootstrap (which for *most* parts is the canonical tool) then you are left with a few files missing (at some point that included /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/apt/sources.list) and filing a bugreport that packages behave weirdly for a system with those core files missing will most likely lead to that bugreport being quickly closed as not-a-bug. Which is the reason that I consider debian-installer an important part of our main deliverable. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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