Holger Wansing wrote: >> @Justin? > > Hmm, debian-l10n-english has vanished from the loop somehow. > Therefore, I fear you lost track of this thread in the meantime ...
Thanks for spotting that. > Maybe you could try to catch up starting from > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=992034#90 > and the follow-ups in the bug and give some feedback? > Thanks In fact I'd also lost track of the fact that this particular thread is about changes to the *installer* guide rather than the release notes. + <sect1 id="misc-adaptions"> + <title>Miscellaneous adaptions</title> +<para> +You may make custom adaptions of the installation process, to make it fit +your needs: +</para> Another vote against "adaption" (I've heard people use it, but usually because they're confusing "adapt" and "adopt"). You've also got an odd use of "may", and a slightly clunky repetition of "make" where all you really need to say is something like "The installation process can be adapted to fit your needs". Except that this doesn't really feel to me like a good way to try to fit the section into its context. Philip Hands suggested the section would fit with its neighbours better as <title>Variations requiring manual intervention</title> which may be true, but this brings to my attention the point that it seems to be promising to list plural variationS whereas in fact we've only got this one. Another problem with "manual intervention" is that the installer guide tends to use the word "manual" to mean just "less automated" - as in "manual" versus "guided" partitioning. The more I look at the way the sections are organised the more I think that the real problem is that "6.3.9 Troubleshooting" is already a misfit. There needs to be some clearer mention in 6.1 of the fact that jumping to VT2 lets you issue commands behind d-i's back; the only place that's explained is the "Troubleshooting" section, which has been included in the list of d-i components where it doesn't really belong. If that was fixed, maybe there would be a natural place to put a section on custom variations in the installation process. It clearly is permitted to promote things out of that list of components into separate sections, since after all that's what has been done with section 6.4 "Loading Missing Firmware", which has been promoted out of 6.3.1 "Setting up Debian Installer and Hardware Configuration". So maybe a 6.5 "Troubleshooting and Customization"? Unfortunately this would necessarily be a long way from the sort of minimal patch that people were hoping for... -- JBR Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
