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Note that the version of this file in the beta2 branch is being used to
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track beta2 release issues.
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Possibilities for the next beta
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- fix all beta2 errata (a must)
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- reiserfsprogs not installed
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NOT FIXED
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- USB Keyboard issues
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UNKNWON (anyone have a usb keyboard?)
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- security fixed kernel
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Done for some arches.
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- discover 2
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udebs exist, but there are space and testing issues.
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- partman (fixes many issues with current system)
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initial version available, not default yet
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needs some UI polishing
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Unknown if we will have time to get it tested enough.
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- XFS support in official release
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waiting for 2.4.25 kernel debs and udebs
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- 2.6 kernel
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in progress?
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- better pcmcia support
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- a manual (partly done)
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provisional html build system now available
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- i18n:
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- BIDI support (for Arabic)
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- cfdisk-udeb (util-linux package) utf-8 support. Bug#229875. NMU?
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- bterm-unifont reloading. Bug#232397
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- subarchitecture support for powerpc and m68k
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in progress
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ftp-master changes needed:
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bterm-unifont -> optional
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fat-modules -> standard on ia64
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make sure we support 32 mb of memory again
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Current status
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CD installs to i386, (some) powerpc, and ia64 are working, with
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many successful installs (and many bugs). A few successes have been
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reported on other architectures such as mips, alpha, hppa.
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Also fair success with other install methods: floppy, USB, netboot, etc.
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debian-installer images are built daily for i386, ia64, powerpc.
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This includes CD images. Images are available for some other
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architectures too.
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ports-status
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debian-installer boot images are available in the Debian archive.
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Status for different parts of debian-installer. The numbers are
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approximate (as in +/- 50%) and may change in any direction, at any
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time.
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[0%] Not begun
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- Some kind of a mechanism for udebs to declare what parts of
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busybox they need, so we can ensure that all deps are met while
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keeping the busybox footprint small.
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Packages depending on base-installer should use the
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utilities in /target so we can keep busybox's size down.
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(We will probably ship without this.)
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- ppp support
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Not as important for analog dialup, as for ISDN, pppoe.
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- some architectures
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arm
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hurd-i386
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sh
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s/390
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[30%] Might need large rewrites. Current implementation might
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work by accident
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- user documentation
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Short term we have the INSTALLATION-HOWTO, but the real
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install manual is still being put together.
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- GUI frontend to cdebconf.
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There are some basic implementations. The trick is to make
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it a GUI that does not suck, while still using debconf
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underneath.
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- pcmcia support
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- may work, may not.. (many failure reports)
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- pcmcia is not enabled during CD or netboot installs,
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because pcmcia-cs-udeb has the wrong priority.
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(Still true?)
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- Probably need to re-run hw-detect after loading pcmcia from
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the net_driver floppy.
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- some architectures
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hppa
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mipsel
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sparc
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- boots, kinda
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[60%] Needs some work, but does its grunt work
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- I18N
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Mostly done, still filling in minor holes.
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- translations
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Varying languages translated to varying degrees.
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http://people.debian.org/~barbier/debian-installer/l10n/
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- language-chooser
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The perrenial problem is how to order/present the list of
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languages. Many complaints, but it works.
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- boot loader installers (lilo, grub, etc)
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Work, except for when they don't. See BTS.
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- base system installer
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debootstrap is stable, and has quite good support in
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base-installer
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Except for when it fails. See BTS.
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In particular, it always fails when used on a non-empty
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partition. Many users run into this.
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- netcfg
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Working, pending rewrite for IPv6.
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- anna
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Works, mostly. Needs support for Releases files.
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Support for signed Release files would be cool, but
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needs gpgv-udeb.
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Needs to have load-installer properly split out of the anna
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binary to save space on root floppy.
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- kernel-package integration
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Moving to the new linux-kernel-di system. Not all arches
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use it yet.
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- disk selector, partitioner
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There are three of them, autopartkit, partkit, and partman.
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partkit needs polish
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partman needs more
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All of them work, except for when they don't. (See BTS.)
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- iso-scan
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Works, but does not flag the disk the iso is mounted from
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as unusable by the rest of the installer.
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- wireless support
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- configurator newly available, needs testing
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- wireless-tools-udeb is available, but is not loaded by default
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on netinst CD
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- post-reboot configuration
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base-cofig is stable, though stuff may need to be added to
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it to handle things d-i doesn't bother with. i18n is
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needed. Some questions repeat questions from d-i.
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- linda support for udebs, to catch all the common gotchas
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(lintian support in progress)
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- web site
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http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
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Could be better laid out, lacking some sections, other
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parts are quite good.
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- archive integration
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Only a few arches (i386, powerpc, ia64) have boot media in
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the archive.
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Last kinks in unstable/testing separation for d-i still being
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worked out.
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- low memory support
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Where "low" is 32 mb!
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Works, but user must be careful to set up swap ASAP.
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There is no sanity checking, and some bad failure modes.
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- some architectures
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i386
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ia64
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powerpc (some subarches)
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mips
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- problems with partitioning, CD images, arcboot
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- netboot and basic install works, if you know what
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you're doing
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m68k (some subarches)
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- mac working, with patches in CVS
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- amiga building, untested
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alpha
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[90%] Single missing important feature or bug.
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- install media build system
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The dest/ image names need to be reorganised.
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- partconf
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Needs progress bars.
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- hw-detect
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Working but needs to be switched over to discover2
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- bts
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Still need a non-manual way to tag our bugs.
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- library reduction
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Still breaking from time to time.
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[100%] Those shouldn't need to be touched any more
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(famous last words)
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- udpkg
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May be eventually replaced with busybox dpkg.
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- cd installs
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- net retriever
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- cdrom retriever
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- ethdetect
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- cdebconf
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- dhcp
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- floppy retriever
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- main-menu
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- choose-mirror
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- busybox integration
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Common problems and transitions
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This is a list of common mistakes that need to be corrected throughout the
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code base:
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* All debconf commands that INPUT, GO, GET or SET questions should check
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their return value. This is pure evil:
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debconf->command(debconf, "GET", "mirror/suite", NULL); /* unchecked return code ! */
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asprintf(&command, "foo %s", debconf->value);
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system(command);
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* Nothing should send error messages to stderr. If there is an error,
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use debconf to display a message. stderr messages will overwrite the
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newt frontend.
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* cdebconf's debconfclient.h has a set of macros for calling debconf
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(debconf_get() and so on)
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These should perhaps be used consistently throughout the code for
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clarity.
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* There needs to be a centralised logging method. Syslog will do, but
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we currently have a lot of nasty code that appends messages to
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/var/log/messages directly. All of that would be converted to pipe it
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to logger. However, this is a problem, because piping a command to
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logger loses the exit status of the command. Need some way to run a
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command, logging the ouput to syslog, w/o losing exit status.
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* udebs should not include md5sums files, or postrm, prerm, preinst
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scripts. This includes ones generated by debhelper.
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* Use the cdebconf error template type for error messages, instead of
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note.
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* Most debconf title setting can be replaced with providing the
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appropriate title template and letting main-menu set it.
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