Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > Is there any way these can be decoupled? In the woody days, the manual (and > other documentation) would be retrieved from the package providing it when > generating the CD-rom sets. I don't think it's good to have binary packages > (initrd) coupled with non-binary packages (documentation). If someone can > point me out to more information on how/why this is done I would really > appreciate it.
Limitations in the archive scripts mean that we cannot upload a source package that produces only a byhand tarball and no debs. So the debian-installer package has to produce some kind of .deb package, and a .deb containing all of its documentation seemed like a reasonable thing to do. If you look at the boot-floppies, it provided install-doc in the same way, which included amoung other things, the same manual. I didn't realise I'd independantly hit upon the same solution to this problem until I looked at it today. > > A major rewrite of chapter 2 is planned after the initrd's are final (are > > they yet?). > > Is there going to be a last upload of initrd? If so translators could use > it to update/review their translations. The last upload of the initrds was planned for over 3 weeks ago. We're so far in minus time now that I cannot give any sensible schedule. The last upload of the initrd will happen as soon as people stop finding bugs in the initrd contents that we cannot possibly release with. -- see shy jo
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