On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 01:34:50AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > > So, could you please remove the "install" and "installation"
> > > pseudo-packages, and change the description of the "boot-floppy"
> > > pseudo-package to read something like 'Installation system in Debian 3.0
> > > and earlier releases'? (Actually, I'm not sure why "boot-floppy" exists
> > > either, but I guess it catches some typoes ...)
> >
> > boot-floppy, cdrom, install and installation were all added to accomplish
> > the same thing -- catch more bugs against the installation procedure as they
> > came in, without relying on unknown-package. They are orthogonal to whatever
> > we call the installation system.
>
> It's also worth remembering that all of the above predate
> unknown-package by some years.
Actually I don't think all of them do. "boot-floppy" and "cdrom" probably,
but I distinctly remember the discussion about adding install* in a recent
time period...
> Nowadays we do at least have a mechanism for catching bug reports against
> unknown packages
I think the question is, do we want to harass unknown-package people to do
those reassignments, or get debian-boot readership to do it. The latter
seems more efficient to me.
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