Hi,
Holger Wansing <hwans...@mailbox.org> wrote (Fri, 30 Jul 2021 09:11:13 +0200):
> > > I'm not very used to best practices when it comes to end-user doc in
> > > general and to the installation-guide package in general, so I'd be
> > > happy for other to build on those suggested changes, and amend/reword
> > > as required!
> >
> > That's still true!
>
> Don't know, if I am better in this respect, but here we go :-)
I forgot this one:
"Installing firmware packages is very likely to require enabling the
non-free section of the package archive. As of
&debian-gnu; 11.0, the
<command>isenkram-autoinstall-firmware</command> command does that by
creating a dedicated file
(<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware.list</filename>),
pointing at a generic mirror."
I would add an additional "automatically" to make more clear, that adding
the sources.list.d file is done without user intervention:
"As of
&debian-gnu; 11.0, the
<command>isenkram-autoinstall-firmware</command> command does that
automatically by
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
creating a dedicated file
(<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d/isenkram-autoinstall-firmware.list</filename>),
pointing at a generic mirror."
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And regarding your comment
> - Documenting what isenkram-autoinstall-firmware does means we should
> check what happens for each major release, to keep up with the
> current implementation. Doing that once every two years doesn't seem
> unreasonable though.
Maybe we can add a 'what-to-check-before-next-stable-release' file for the
installation-guide somewhere, to make sure this does not get forgotten ...
I think there is such doc somewhere for other artefacts of releasing d-i?
Holger
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