Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-15 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061014 11:10]: > we (Steve McIntyre, Martin Zobel-Helas and me) discussed what is an official > Debian CD. Frankly speaking, we should be able to produce official CDs for > handing out at fairs. If we are talking about CDs / DVDs to be handed out at fairs

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061014 20:33]: > Obviously this adds enough human element to avoid a CD that installs > windows, but what then is the cutoff point? Would a CD that > auto-installs debian-edu be able to be called an "Debian CD"? > What about a CD that only changes the default deskto

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Joey Hess
Andreas Barth wrote: > ==begin draft== > Any CD/DVD image needs to (I'll just write CD now for lazyness): > - CD-lintian doesn't report errors (as soon as we have it); > - CD uses the official d-i (of course, preseeding is ok), or if otherwise > agreed by the d-i RMs (which are currently Joey Hes

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Frans Pop ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061014 13:49]: > I would appreciate it if we would not make hard decisions/statements on > this NOW, but first await the post-etch discussion (or better > investigation) on how, as a project, we can and want to support hardware > that is technically non-free in t

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread George Danchev
On Saturday 14 October 2006 13:32, Andreas Barth wrote: --cut-- > > Oh, and > > another point: so live-cds are not official CDs, according to this > > definition ("All software that ends up on the installed system..."). I > > think it would be nice to have official live-cds. > > These guidelines we

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Frans Pop
On Saturday 14 October 2006 12:25, Andreas Barth wrote: > * Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061014 12:19]: > > What happens with the {non-free,firmware} images which will be needed > > for etch+1 for many of our users? > > They will be on CD, of course. "DFSG-free" means whatever it means for >

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, * Holger Levsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061014 12:19]: > On Saturday 14 October 2006 11:10, Andreas Barth wrote: > > - All "official" packages are the same as on ftp.d.o, additional packages > > can be in other directories; > > Do I understand this correctly, that I can make a official debian

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 12:08:33PM +0200, Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:10:20AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > we (Steve McIntyre, Martin Zobel-Helas and me) discussed what is an official > > Debian CD. Frankly speaking, we should be able to produce officia

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
* Bastian Blank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061014 12:19]: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:10:20AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > > we (Steve McIntyre, Martin Zobel-Helas and me) discussed what is an official > > Debian CD. Frankly speaking, we should be able to produce official CDs for > > handing out at fai

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Bastian Blank
On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 11:10:20AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote: > we (Steve McIntyre, Martin Zobel-Helas and me) discussed what is an official > Debian CD. Frankly speaking, we should be able to produce official CDs for > handing out at fairs. However, to allow us to do that efficiently, we tried >

Re: draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi, On Saturday 14 October 2006 11:10, Andreas Barth wrote: > CDs for handing out at fairs. However, to allow us to do that efficiently, > we tried to come out with some guidelines. Of course, currently this is a > draft, and we welcome feedback. Overall it looks good & short :) One question (or

draft guidelines for official CD images

2006-10-14 Thread Andreas Barth
Hi, we (Steve McIntyre, Martin Zobel-Helas and me) discussed what is an official Debian CD. Frankly speaking, we should be able to produce official CDs for handing out at fairs. However, to allow us to do that efficiently, we tried to come out with some guidelines. Of course, currently this is a d