[ ccing debian-cd instead of -boot since that's the list mostly concerned by this mail ]
Le Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 02:51:21PM -0500, Jeff Licquia �crivait: > It's been brought to my attention that there's some dissatisfaction with > debian-cd within Debian, that some reengineering may need to happen, and > that such reengineering may not be able to happen soon. Funny way to present the situation. :-) I indeed recognized problems with debian-cd and I think it's time to rewrite partially debian-cd to overcome the current limitations and get rid of the useless complexity. For reference : http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd-0401/msg00025.html For the delay it depends either on my time or on volunteers coming up to rewrite debian-cd following the new design that I have drafted : http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2004/debian-cd-200401/msg00045.html Unfortunately nobody contacted me yet to tell me he's interested in helping out. :) > source for each binary on it), or none. Package ordering is handled via > order files, But it doesn't take into account dependencies. That's an important feature of debian-cd in my opinion. > In none of this do I wish to impugn the good name of Raphael Hertzog or > of his creation, which has served Debian well thus far. Nor do I wish Thank you but I already received many critics for debian-cd and I never felt offensed. After all debian-cd is working since slink (even if it was not yet official at that time) and it has far outreached its initial goal. But it suffers from other problems and now it's time to overcome those problems if it must work for a few more releases. :-) I asked people on debian-cd to review picax and give feedback (on the list and to you). Let's see what comes out ! Cheers, -- Rapha�l Hertzog -+- http://www.ouaza.com Formation Linux et logiciel libre : http://www.logidee.com Earn money with free software: http://www.geniustrader.org
