Hi -- we expect to have an upload of i386 boot-floppies within 72 hours. This release is not a "release candidate" per se but rather an early access Alpha version.
The fundamental structure of boot-floppies hasn't changed too much, although we have made some changes (such as splitting boot/root). As far as I can tell, the PowerPC and Sparc ports are in very good shape in the boot-flopppies code-line, so versions for those architectures should follow soon. [Note there's a really nasty problem with perl-base-5.005 / adduser which may require that the 2.2.0 release of boot floppies actually include perl-5.005 itself in base. Ew. This should be fixed soon we hope.] We would like the potato boot-floppies to *only* ship with the apt acquisition method. [Yes yes yes, I know that there may be certain cases where apt won't work, but IMHO these cases are so marginal I'd rather not even bother for now.] We are working on a replacement task metapackage system that allows users to completely side-step dselect. However, we lack an apt configurator at this time, which is a major problem. Hopefully such a configurator could *automatically* detect the presence of an Official CD. Obviously the CD team should be involved in this. I don't think the boot-floppies team can handle the production of this new apt configurator. So, I guess I'd like to float a request for someone to build this on debian-devel, pointing out it's critical for potato release. The other problem regarding all this is that I would like to inhibit the other dselect acquisition methods, to prevent user confusion. Optimally, I think acquisition methods should be folded out from dpkg itself (that would get rid of a *lot* of dpkg bugs, BTW). See Bug#32595. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
