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- debian-installer-manual (2005xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ installation-guide (2008xxxx) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Clarify console switching for the graphical installer.
+     Thanks to Tim Richardson for the suggestion.
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Spell "multiselect" correctly in apt-setup/services-select preseeding
+     example.
+   * Note that an empty preseed file is equivalent to a normal manual
+     installation (thanks, Nathan Sutton).
+   [ Robert Millan ]
+   * Document how to start the installer from Windows.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Document installation using multiple CD/DVDs; update text about using a
+     mirror in line with that.
+   * Lenny will be version 5.0.
+   * Warn about boot issues when using RAID on the root file system.
+   * Update task selection section for changes in desktop task preseeding.
+   * Fix double / in links, spotted by Stanislav Gromov. Closes: #472813.
+   * Document new boot parameters to define mouse protocol and device (port)
+     for the graphical installer.
+   * Correct command to use to allow preseeding of netcfg when using a
+     preconfiguration file downloaded from a server (preseed/url).
+     Thanks to Durk Strooisma for the report and analysis. Closes: #476524.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Remove autopartkit from the module list.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:17:13 +0200
+ installation-guide (20080211) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
+   * Remove all information about RiscPC because these machines are
+     no longer supported.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document the new tasksel/desktop preseed for lenny.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Add cm-super to build dependencies as that improves the quality of the
+     Russian PDF version.
+   * Suggest 'nousb' instead of debian-installer/probe/usb as USB modules are
+     now loaded automatically.
+   * Fix incorrect instruction for preseeding local repositories.
+     Thanks to Rémi Demarthe. Closes: #420894.
+   * Add translatable entities for Continue, Cancel and Go Back buttons.
+   * Add build dependencies on texlive-lang-* packages for languages for which
+     the manual has translations.
+   * Document new boot parameters "lowmem" and "dmraid".
+   * Document new location of graphical mini.iso images.
+   * Document base-installer/kernel/image preseed.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document new lilo-installer/skip preseed.
+   * Document passwd/user-default-groups preseed.
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Recommend preseeding mirror/country to "manual" rather than "enter
+     information manually" (choose-mirror 2.17).
+   * Remove text talking about devfs-style device names, which are no longer
+     supported.
+   * preparing/minimum-hardware-reqts.xml: Pluralise "gigabyte" consistently.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document clock-setup/ntp.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Support for sparc32 has been discontinued for Lenny. This also means that
+     booting from floppy is no longer supported for sparc.
+   * Extend the documentation of apt-setup, especially the decision whether or
+     not to use a network mirror. Document selection of services.
+   * Document new apt-setup/services-select and related hostname preseeds.
+   * Add some information about creating device files in the appendix on chroot
+     installs; also add a note that the appendix only covers the basic steps
+     of a chroot install.
+   * Warn against installing Debian while another OS is hibernated.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document how to preseed partman-auto to use only available disk, no matter
+     what it's name is.
+   * debian/rules: call dh_md5sums.
+   * Document debian-installer/exit/halt preseed.
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Clarify that you need to actually provide an autopartitioning method as
+     well as preseeding the partman confirmation messages.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Make copyright refer explicitly to GPL version 2 as that is the version
+     included in the appendix; add reference to /usr/share/common-licenses to
+     make Lintian happy.
+   * Rename doc-base.TEMPLATE to TEMPLATE.doc-base to avoid its inclusion in
+     the package for the first architecture. Closes: #416304.
+   * Modify language codes that include a country for the doc-base document ID
+     so they only contain valid characters.
+   * Remove the PDF section in doc-base files if PDF format is not built for a
+     language.
+   * Update standards version to 3.7.3; no changes needed.
+   * Patch from Changwoo Ryu to replace Hangul-ucs with ko.tex fonts for Korean
+     PDF version of the manual. Closes: #457137.
+   * using-d-i:
+     - move clock-setup, tzsetup and user-setup to reflect their changed
+       position in the installation procedure
+     - mention that clock-setup will now attempt to set the system time from a
+       time server
+     - split clock-setup as part is now executed during finish-install
+     - add instructions on how a different time zone from the one(s) that match
+       the selected location can be set (as that is a FAQ)
+     - improve readability of partman section by using separate subsections for
+       guided and manual partitioning
+     - network-console: add information about dropped connections and how to
+       avoid that (closes: #458154); add footnote with command to remove a host
+       from the known_hosts file
+   * howto, preseed: update for reordering of the installation procedure.
+   * Change build dependency on gs-common to ghostscript.
+   * Use --previous when updating PO files so translators can see the changes
+     in a string.
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Use &releasename; rather than hardcoding etch in sources.list
+     recommendation for chroot installs. Closes: #458459.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Make UTF-8 the default encoding for the text version for all languages
+     that still used ISO-8859-1.
+   * Korean text version changed to UTF-8 on request of Changwoo Ryu.
+   * Japanese text version changed to UTF-8 on request of KURASAWA Nozomu.
+   * Enable PDF for Korean for website builds.
+   * Disable Finnish, Hungarian and Spanish for this release as they have not
+     been updated.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:35:22 +0100
+ installation-guide (20070319) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Cleaned up definitions of some entities and removed unused ones.
+   * Implement infrastructure that allows entities to be translated.
+     Thanks to Miroslav Kure for providing the patch. Closes: #344048, #406515.
+   * Disable Korean PDF/PS formats for builds for the website.
+   * appendix/files: update information about mouse configuration, based on a
+     patch from Peter Samuelson (for which thanks). Closes: #406290.
+   * boot-installer, appendix/preseed: document preseed/interactive parameter.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Fix package name for installation-reports, and manual unfuzzy of all
+     translations. Closes: #408408
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * welcome:
+     - make links to FSF and GNU more consistent (closes: #410317)
+     - we do not necessarily share the ideals of the FSF (closes: #410129)
+     Thanks to Francesco Poli for suggesting these changes.
+   * using-d-i: guided partitioning now creates swap inside LVM.
+     Thanks to Francesco Poli. Closes: #411399.
+   * Document installs over PPPoE. Based on a text proposed by Eddy Petrisor.
+     Closes: #408340.
+   * installation-howto: update for the integration of base-config into D-I.
+   * appendix/preseed:
+     - as exim no longer asks any questions during installations, there is no
+       real need to document it anymore
+     - add link to Philip Hand's website as it contains many creative examples
+     - document how to select the ftp protocol during mirror selection
+     - document how to install from CD/DVD only (and not use a network mirror)
+   * Update base/standard system and task sizes.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document debian-installer/allow_unauthenticated.
+   [ Wouter Verhelst ]
+   * Update mac68k installation after notes from Finn Thain, upstream mac68k
+     kernel hacker.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Replace entity in example-preseed.txt file. Thanks to Geert Stappers for
+     spotting the error. Closes: #413257.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon, 19 Mar 2007 15:00:12 +0100
+ installation-guide (20070122) unstable; urgency=low
+   * Enable Catalan, Brazillian, Korean and Spanish again.
+   * Enable new Hungarian translation.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:57 +0100
+ installation-guide (20070115) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Document new pkgsel/include setting.
+   * Fix incorrect documentation on preseeding additional apt sources.
+   * Fix typo in hppa hardware support documentation
+     (https://launchpad.net/bugs/55164).
+   * Adjust chroot-install guide to take account of debootstrap being
+     Architecture: all now (https://launchpad.net/bugs/64765).
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall and Holger Wansing.
+     Closes: #378404, #370484, #370425.
+   * Update instructions on how to set module parameters for PLIP installation.
+   * Update chroot install instructions to use aptitude instead of apt-get.
+   * Add /srv in overview of directory tree in partitioning appendix.
+   * Update section on partitioning using LVM to reflect recent changes.
+   * Apply various patches by or based on suggestions from Nathanael Nerode.
+     Some of the bigger changes include:
+     - Update of processor support for the i386 architecture.
+     - Update information on setting up a RARP server.
+   * Add variant for the AMD64 architecture. Closes: #305977.
+   * Suppress warnings about missing IDs for sections and such.
+   * Reorganize supported hardware table; i386 no longer has flavors.
+   * Document SMP-alternatives as one of the variants of SMP support.
+   * Document how to shut down the system. Based on patch from Holger Levsen.
+     Closes: #248067.
+   [ Miroslav Kure ]
+   * Update information about booting with encrypted partitions.
+     Closes: #378651.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Update preseeding docs to document listing more than one disk for
+     partman-auto/disk and grub-installer/bootdev
+   [ Changwoo Ryu ]
+   * Add support for Korean PDF output. Requires latex-hangul-ucs-hlatex.
+     Closes: #381657.
+   [ David Härdeman ]
+   * Update preseeding documentation for partman-auto.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Correct error for alpha netboot installations. Thanks to Aurélien Géröme.
+     Closes: #386591.
+   * Correct number of release arches. Thanks to Holger Wansing. Closes: #384321.
+   * Minor corrections suggested by Malcolm Parsons. Closes: #388138.
+   * Document new boot parameters theme and directfb/hw-accel.
+   * Remove now obsolete distinction between classic and common kpkg.
+   * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.17.
+   * Set default value for manual_release in build wrapper scripts.
+   * Add new section in preseeding appendix on partman-auto-raid. Not included
+     in preseed text file as it is still somewhat experimental.
+   * Document changes in guided partitioning and added encrypted LVM support.
+   * Disable m68k for official builds as it is not a release architecture.
+   * buildweb.sh: use 'mv -f' to avoid errors during builds on the webserver.
+   * Minor corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall. Closes: #394413, #394471.
+   * Update task sizes as per D-I RC1.
+   * New troubleshooting section on how to deal with CD-ROM related problems.
+   * Document how to pass parameters to kernel modules on boot.
+   * Document how to install KDE instead of Gnome in the section on pkgsel.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Update for recent floppy changes.
+   * Remove hardcoded paths to executables in buildone.sh.
+   * Set HOME to a temporary directory before running w3m, to avoid it
+     trying to write to a home directory that may not exist on the buildds.
+     (See #393641)
+   * Update the installation report template to match current one in
+     installation-report.
+   [ Philip Hands ]
+   * Clarify how -- affects which parameters end up in the target system's
+     bootloader's command line.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Applied Phil's auto mode documentation patch, edited it, and moved
+     some things around for clarity. Closes: #395910
+   * Document auto=true boot parameter.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Add condition "g-i" for arches that support the graphical installer.
+   * Document mouse/left boot parameter.
+   * Explain usage of "owner" prefix when setting values for debconf variables
+     intended for the target system at the boot prompt.
+   * Give some examples of preseeding questions from the boot prompt.
+   * Document how to install the KDE desktop environment instead of GNOME.
+   * Don't list unsupported frontends in boot parameters section.
+   * Minor corrections suggested by Tapio Lehtonen. Closes: #397790.
+   * Minor corrections suggested by Holger Wansing. Closes: #397974.
+   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
+   * Mention that RiscPC support is incomplete.
+   * Mention Intel IOP32x support.
+   * Talk about ixp4xx rather than the more specific nslu2.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Update all arches to kernel version 2.6.18.
+   * Minor corrections and some rewrites based on suggestions from
+     Clytie Siddall. Closes: #367861, #380588.
+   * Update Sparc specific information and document common installation issues
+     for Sparc. Many thanks to Jurij Smakov for reviewing the Sparc manual and
+     for his overview of issues.
+   * Etch ships with X.Org 7.1.
+   * Update number of developers, packages and mailing lists.
+   * General revision of minimum hardware requirements throughout the manual.
+   * Update of installed/download size of tasks.
+   * Document the graphical installer, including the main known issues.
+   * Avoid generating XML files multiple times for translations using PO files
+     when using build.sh or buildweb.sh sripts.
+   * bookinfo:
+     - Add note for m68k that it is not a release architecture for Etch.
+   * hardware:
+     - Remove ancient section on parity RAM. Closes: #403035.
+     - Update documenation for Sparc, based on patch by Jurij Smakov.
+       Closes: #389516.
+     - PowerPC/APUS is currently not supported; removed from hardware table.
+     - Remove sun4cd (sparc32) from and add sun4v (sparc64) in hardware table.
+     - Rewrite of NIC support, document wireless support (for selected arches)
+       and explain issues surrounding drivers that require firmware.
+   * preparing:
+     - Clean out ancient hardware issues.
+   * boot-installer/parameters:
+     - Document anna/choose_modules and mirror/protocol boot parameters.
+     - Use a clearer way to list the short form of parameters.
+     - Document new option to blacklist kernel modules.
+   * boot-installer/trouble:
+     - Fix reference to Save debug logs menu option.
+       Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402439.
+     - Add a note that installation reports will be published.
+   * install-methods:
+     - All architectures that support TFTP booting also support DCHP, so remove
+       the "supports-dhcp" condition.
+     - According to the text, Alpha supports BOOTP.
+     - Use dhcp3-server for examples rather than dhcp (version 2).
+     - tftpd-hpa does not use /tftpboot by default; allow for this in examples.
+       Closes: #342076.
+   * using-d-i:
+     - Extend description of lowmem installs based on a patch suggested by
+       Holger Wansing. Closes: #400263.
+   * boot-new:
+     - Remove reference to apt guide (not installed by default) and obsolete
+       debian-guide. Thanks, Philippe Batailler. Closes: #402492.
+     - As lynx is no longer installed, suggest w3m as text based browser.
+     - Explain how to browse /usr/share/doc/ using a graphical web browser.
+     - Mention documentation packages.
+     - Clarify what happens on first boot and how to get help to in case of
+       problems.
+   * post-install:
+     - Remove section on reactivating Windows; the installer should detect it
+       automatically after all. Closes: #402437.
+     - Add extended section on email configuration (moved from using-d-i as
+       exim4 now configures for "local mail only" by default). Closes: #402857.
+   * appendix/preseed:
+     - Clarifications based on comments from Tapio Lehtonen and Holger Wansing.
+       Closes: #397923.
+   * appendix/chroot-install:
+     - Changes suggested in review by Wiktor Wandachowicz. Closes: #394929.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Prepare for release. This release is mostly for testing purposes, the real
+     release targeted at Etch will be next week.
+   * Add and enable amd64 architecture.
+   * Update control file for dropped m68k and added amd64 architectures.
+   * Disable Catalan, Korean, Spanish and Brazillian translations as they are
+     not yet complete.
+   * Enable Finnish translation.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Jan 2007 22:10:16 +0100
+ installation-guide (20060726) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Update kernel building section to conditionalise some more 2.4 kernel
+     stuff.
+   * Suggest passing --initrd to make-kpkg since the docs say nothing about
+     compiling disk drivers into the kernel.
+   * Document new passwd/root-login setting.
+   * Booting a USB stick via a boot floppy is not supported by current
+     installer images.
+   * Update preseeding docs to use task names, not short descriptions, since
+     that will work now and is more convenient for preseeding.
+   * Document the kde-desktop and gnome-desktop subtasks.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Various corrections suggested by Clytie Siddall.
+   * chroot-install:
+     - add /etc/hosts to be created for network configuration (closes: #364517)
+     - make kernel/linux-image variable (closes: #345482)
+   * Document -- command line option for passing parameters to boot loader
+     configuration (closes: #309889).
+   * Switch Finnish from XML-based to PO-based translation.
+   * Bring numbering and layout of GPL more in line with original. With thanks
+     to Holger Wansing.
+   * Add functionality to include optional paragraphs in translations.
+     Initially two have been defined:
+     - a paragraph in bookinfo for information about the translation;
+     - a note in appendix/gpl.xml required with unofficial GPL translations.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Document new preseed/run setting.
+   * Prebaseconfig renamed to finish-install, which changes some documentation,
+     and. notably, renames one of the xml files.
+   * hd-media size changed to 256 mb.
+   * Document new aliases added in preseed 1.17 for common debconf boot
+     parameters: fb, url, file, locale, interface.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Document guided partitioning using LVM and update partitioning section.
+   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
+   * The RiscPC flavour is now known as "rpc" rather than "riscpc".
+   * As of 2.6, r4k-ip22 also rupports r5k machines do the r5k-ip22 flavour
+     has been dropped.
+   [ Holger Levsen ]
+   * Added the remaining suggestions about nubus and non-powerpc macs
+     (closes: #364546).
+   * Restructured the chapter about powerpc supported hardware, moved
+     unsupported machines to the end.
+   * Updated the information about existing kernel flavours.
+   [ Miroslav Kure ]
+   * Document installation to encrypted partitions (partman-crypto).
+   * Update XOrg to 7.0.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Etch has been assigned version 4.0.
+   * Update kernel versions to 2.6.16.
+   * Base languages to be built for website on list of release languages.
+   * arm, mips and mipsel switched to 2.6 kernels.
+   * Enable Brazillian Portuguese and Vietnamese translation for release.
+   * Disable Greek translation as it is too incomplete.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 07:27:52 +0200
+ installation-guide (20060427) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Update preseeding docs for base-config removal.
+   * Add documentation of how to change apt-setup security source with
+     preseeding.
+   * Remove the sarge preseeding docs.
+   * Remove mentions of base-config and move base-config stuff to elsewhere.
+   * Add documentation of apt-setup, user-setup, clock-setup, tzsetup, and
+     pkgsel.
+   * Change some references to tty3 (messages) to instead refer to tty4
+     (syslog).
+   * Change references to /var/log/debian-installer to just /var/log/installer.
+   * Remove docs for baseconfig-udeb; going away with base-config.
+   * Removed various bits of sarge cruft when it made things easier.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Change default build to Etch.
+   * Remove all Sarge specific content and make Etch specific content default.
+   * Delete some obsolete entities.
+   * Change references from package d-i-manual to package installation-guide.
+   * Explicitly specify XML declaration as required by openjade 1.4devel1-15
+     (closes: #360241).
+   * Update appendix on chroot installs:
+     - mention that debootstrap also requires basic Unix/Linux commands;
+     - comment out link to outdated rpm packages of debootstrap.
+   [ Colin Watson ]
+   * Add a few more supports-floppy-boot and bootable-usb conditionals to
+     make it easier to turn all this off in rebuilds of the manual.
+   * Etch uses X.Org 6.9, and xserver-xorg instead of xserver-xfree86.
+   * Document how to pick a particular interface with
+     netcfg/choose_interface, including how to do this before reading a
+     preseed file.
+   * Remove obsolete substvar.
+   * Build-depend on libhtml-parser-perl for build/preseed.pl.
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Add docs about preseeding a fallback to a static IP if dhcp fails.
+   * Update copyright date.
+   * It's possible to use preseeding to set up LVM now, so remove stuff about
+     it not working.
+   * Document DHCP preseeding. Note that this documents it as of netcfg 1.24
+     and preseed 1.13.
+   [ Martin Michlmayr ]
+   * Bring ARM up to date with reality: remove unsupported flavours, add
+     NSLU2.
+   * Fix Netwinder/CATS download location.
+   * Improve the Netwinder TFTP boot instructions.
+   * The Netwinder firmware is no longer available due to license problems.
+   * Mention NSLU2 download location.
+   * Describe how to flash the installer image onto the NSLU2.
+   * Describe how to boot a Cobalt machine.
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Document new option to preseed additional apt sources for target system.
+   * Document how to create a preconfiguration file.
+   * Enable Catalan, Italian and Swedish translations for release.
+   * Disable Brazillian Portuguese translation as it is too incomplete.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:00:32 +0200
+ installation-guide (20060102) unstable; urgency=low
+   [ Frans Pop ]
+   * Fix build error caused by description for s390. Closes: #337382.
+   * Update kernel package names and kernel versions per architecture.
+   * Move documentation on preseeding to separate appendix for etch.
+   * Use new, more flexible perl script to extract example preseed file from
+     new appendix.
+   * Set proper POT-Creation-Date when generating new POT files.
+   * New translations started: Polish, Swedish, Vietnamese.
+   * First release of Greek and Korean translations.
+   * Exclude Traditional Chinese translation as it was not updated.
+   * Switch release name to Etch (3.1+δ).
+   [ Joey Hess ]
+   * Update installation report template and instructions for etch.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Mon,  2 Jan 2006 18:44:59 +0100
+ installation-guide (20051025) unstable; urgency=low
+   * Mention in copyright that full GPL is included in the manual.
+     Closes: #334925
+   * Register installed documents with doc-base.
+   * Minor updates in English text and translations.
+  -- Frans Pop <fjp@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:37:25 +0200
+ installation-guide (20051019) unstable; urgency=low
    [ Joey Hess ]
    * Split off from the debian-installer source package.

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