Package: base-config Version: 2.53.10.2 Severity: important The patch below would add support to apt-setup to install sarge now that it is oldstable. I'm not completely sure that it is worth doing this, but OTOH we do have a Sarge point release coming up anyway.
I've tested the patch and this change is actually enough to have a netboot
installation just work.
If accepted, I would do similar updates in choose-mirror, cdrom-detect and
iso-scan so that CD-based and hd-media installations work as well and
selecting oldstable is supported at medium and low priority.
An important question is if we should do a call for translation updates for
this. I've kept the changes as isolated as possible (by including the
description for oldstable as a separate para), but there are languages that
have the choices translated.
The upside is that we only need a translation update for one of the packages
involved and can then merge the translation to the other packages (with some
sed magic as in base-config the order of the options is different from the
rest).
Joey: if you'd like me to do this as an NMU, that would be fine with me.
diff -u base-config-2.53.10.2/apt-setup base-config-2.53.10.3/apt-setup
--- base-config-2.53.10.2/apt-setup 2005-05-13 21:00:26.000000000 +0000
+++ base-config-2.53.10.3/apt-setup 2007-05-05 23:13:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -667,6 +667,8 @@
# Figure out which suite to use.
if apt-cache policy | grep "o=Debian,a=" | grep -q 'a=testing'; then
SUITE="testing"
+ elif apt-cache policy | grep "o=Debian,a=" | grep -q 'a=oldstable'; then
+ SUITE="oldstable"
else
SUITE="stable"
fi
diff -u base-config-2.53.10.2/apt-setup.templates
base-config-2.53.10.3/apt-setup.templates
--- base-config-2.53.10.2/apt-setup.templates 2005-05-13 21:00:26.000000000
+0000
+++ base-config-2.53.10.3/apt-setup.templates 2007-05-05 23:13:43.000000000
+0000
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
Template: mirror/suite
Type: select
-_Choices: stable, unstable, testing
+_Choices: stable, unstable, testing, oldstable
Default: testing
_Description: Debian distribution to use:
Debian comes in several flavors. Stable is well-tested and rarely changes.
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
that receives many of the new versions from unstable if they are not too
buggy.
.
+ Oldstable is the previous stable distribution.
+ .
Please choose which version of Debian you wish to install.
Template: mirror/http/proxy
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