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Debian-cd is probably like a lot of the infrastructure packages that we use, in that the packaged versions are generally out of date and therefore not very useful for Debian developers. But we should still package them, as that way our users get neatly-packaged stuff easily available instead of having to fight cvs/svn to download them.

debian-cd 2.2.18 should contain all the various local patches and tweaks that most of us have been using over the CVS version for the last few months, and I'm about to upload it with urgency=medium so it will make the sarge release. It shouldn't cause any issues for the build daemons, as it's binary-all anyway.

Once sarge is released, I want to get stuck in and make some large changes to the way debian-cd works. Obviously, the first of these will be to use JTE (which is too big a change to go in so close to a release IMHO). Secondly, I'd like to refactor and clean up the code to a large extent. Unlike some people, I don't think that debian-cd is particularly in need of replacement - it just needs some cleaning up. The steps required to build debian CDs are always going to be long and complex (and generally messy), and pretending otherwise doesn't help.

I have some basic ideas on how I want to do things, but nothing really worthy of comment just yet. Watch this space!

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Re: Final sarge edition of debian-cd uploaded; ideas for debian-cd v3?
Steve wrote on Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:22

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