Bug#582884: ITP: usb-creator -- startup disk creator
I just came across this package due to debian-CD discussion on d-devel.
I fixed up the current ubuntu version so it builds and installs on
Debian and is less distro-specific.
Then I found this ITP and argument about the name.
Where are we at? Is anyone going to get this into wheezy (I think it
would be very useful and it would be trivial but for the name-change).
It seems we are stalled on the name-change. Can that just be done now
(as quantal has been released, so now is a good time) and get on with
it, or is there an actual problem?
Anyway - here is my patch to hopefully save someone some time. I would
prefer it if the people who wrote this and did work already would
maintian this in Debian - I see Dmitrijs is a DD and has done most of
the Debianisation so far. But I don't mind sponsoring if that helps.
(I.e I don't particularly desire to be an uploader for this - feel
free to remove me :-)
Stuff I changed:
removed dh-translations (doesn't exist in Debian) - used dpkg-vendor
in rules file to call/not-call as required.
Changed description to be distro-neutral
Removed gir-unity install-dep (doesn;t exist on debian)
Changed syslinux install-dep (no syslinux-legacy on debian - is this
an issue technically - is syslinux 2.3x needed for some reason?
Hacked .ui files to say Debian or ubuntu, and suggest install as well
a live disk. This is hacky - could be done much better to put in
apropriate name for distro, or just talk about 'the image you just
wrote'. Awkward to be both newbie-friendly and accurate, and cover
installers as well as live images in one sentence. Suggestions for how
to handle this are welcome.
Checked and updated standards-version. I will test it with some real
installer images tonight.
It does seem that we need to have some control file differences
between Debian and Ubuntu so there will have to be a small Ubuntu
diff, unless someone can think of a clever way to deal with this.
Wookey
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